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noun
A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: human-sciences, medicine, psychoanalysis, psychology, sciences
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
From Ancient Greek ὀκνέω (oknéō, “to shrink from, fear, hesitate”) + -o- + -phile with the final "e" dropped. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.
