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avoidant

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avoidant [əˈvɔɪdənt]
adj
(of behaviour) demonstrating a tendency to avoid intimacy or interaction with others
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People who are worried, perfectionist, socially avoidant or who encountered some or the other form of child abuse are most likely to suffer from panic attacks.
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They found three underlying dimensions: comfort with closeness, ability to depend on others, and anxiety about abandonment or being unloved, interpreted as dimensions underlying the secure, anxious-ambivalent and avoidant styles.
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