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

Avogadro's number
Avogadro's postulate
Avogadro number
avoid
avoid
avoidable
avoidably
avoidance
avoidance-avoidance conflict
avoidances
avoidance conditioning
avoidance learning
avoidance training
avoidant disorder of adolescence
avoidant disorder of childhood
avoidant personality (current term)
avoided
avoided costs
avoider
avoiders
avoiding
avoids
avoirdupois
avoirdupois
avoirdupois unit
avoirdupois weight
avoision
avoisions
Avon
avos

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