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sociofugal

adj · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • Received-Pronunciation: /ˌsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˈfjuː.ɡl̩/
  • Received-Pronunciation: /-ʃi-/
  • General-American: /ˌsoʊ.si.o(ʊ)ˈfju.ɡ(ə)l/
  • General-American: /-ʃi-/
  • rhymes with -uːɡəl

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adj

Meaning 1

Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can maintain some privacy from the others.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: human-sciences, psychology, sciences, social-science, sociology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: sociopetal

History

Etymology

From socio- (prefix meaning ‘society’) + -fugal (suffix meaning ‘travelling out from’), coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in 1957: see the quotation.