avoidant
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7.7
- adjective
- /əˈvɔɪdənt/
- Specialized
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evitativo
- The pattern of social support shown by insecure persons, either avoidant or ambivalent, is also in line with our predictions.
- avoidant strategies
- avoidant attachment
- avoidant style
And now it turns into avoidant behaviour on our part.
- And now it turns into avoidant behaviour on our part.
- People who are avoidant don't trust easily.
- Would you say in your relationships with people you're avoidant or not or anxious or not?
- And when the traits were explained, I knew straight away I was avoidant straight away.
- And I do think this is highly tied to the avoidant attachment style.
- So I tended to become more withdrawn or just a little bit more avoidant whenever people would ask me that question.
- This kind of sort of chaotic early environment can result in what we call anxious and or avoidant attachment styles.
- And I think that these days we live in a society that is also more and more conflict avoidant.
- Most narcissists do tend to have a more anxious attachment style, but some may have what we call avoidant attachments and many have a mix between the two.
- They have healthier relationships and you have to train yourself to go for that and to break out of this anxious avoidant loop.
- They're so confrontation avoidant that they would rather ghost someone than break up with them after dating them for six months, right?
- There are four different attachment styles, anxious, secure avoidant and anxious avoidant.
- I think that that because our, when the going, we're very conflict avoidant.
Examples
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Similarly, the outcomes of authoritarian parenting tend to overlap the characteristics of avoidant attachment.
Academic text (2001) -
Daughters who reported that they engaged in avoidant behaviors also reported greater psychological distress in the present.
Academic text (1997) -
And now it turns into avoidant behaviour on our part.
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And when the traits were explained, I knew straight away I was avoidant straight away.
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A similar pattern was identified among both secure and avoidant persons.
Academic text (1995) -
And I do think this is highly tied to the avoidant attachment style.
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People who are avoidant don't trust easily.
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So I tended to become more withdrawn or just a little bit more avoidant whenever people would ask me that question.
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No significant difference was found between avoidant and ambivalent persons.
Academic text (1995) -
People with avoidant tendencies often struggle to open up about their feelings.
Synonyms
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1.0
Nervous and likely to avoid people or new situations
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3.5
Not willing to do something because you feel unsure
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6.3
Not friendly and distant, not joining in with other people
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7.4
Tends to live alone and avoid other people
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7.9
Not willing to talk about thoughts or feelings easily
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5.1
Preferring to be alone and avoiding social situations
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7.1
Not friendly and keeping a distance from others
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6.6
Not friendly and hard to talk to so people avoid them
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5.3
A person who does not enjoy being with other people
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7.2
Prefers to be alone and avoids meeting other people
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4.8
Prefers being alone and avoids spending time with others
Someone who is quiet and prefers to be alone instead of being with others
A person who prefers to be alone or a place that gives privacy
Prefers to be alone and avoids other people
Not sociable and preferring to be alone
Antonyms
How Avoidant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Avoidant comes from the verb avoid and the ending -ant, which means 'doing' or 'tending to'. So an avoidant person is someone who 'keeps away' or stays distant, which is why the word describes people who are reluctant to form close emotional relationships.