Medical Definition of Avoidant personality

1. A personality characterised by a hypersensitivity to potential rejection, humiliation, or shame, an unwillingness to enter into relationships without unusually strong guarantees of uncritical acceptance, social withdrawal in spite of a desire for affection and acceptance, and low self-esteem. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Avoidant Personality

avoid
avoid like the plague
avoidability
avoidable
avoidableness
avoidably
avoidance
avoidance-avoidance conflict
avoidance conditioning
avoidance learning
avoidance training
avoidances
avoidant
avoidant disorder of adolescence
avoidant disorder of childhood
avoidant personality (current term)
avoidantly
avoidaunce
avoided
avoided costs
avoider
avoiders
avoidest
avoideth
avoiding
avoidless
avoids
avoirdupois
avoirdupois ounce
avoirdupois ounces

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