ocnophil

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ocnophil (plural ocnophils)

  1. (psychology) A personality type characterised by avoidance of dangerous of unfamiliar situations, and the reliance on other people for security.
    • 2018, Josephine Klein, Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy:
      People who need other people around them much of the time are people whose well-being depends massively on the feelings of others towards them. This alarms the philobats (the spacebats), but the ocnophils (the homebodies) like it that way.

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