ocnophilic
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ocnophil + -ic.[1] Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.
Adjective
[edit]ocnophilic (comparative more ocnophilic, superlative most ocnophilic)
- (psychoanalysis) Relating to, or characteristic of an ocnophil (someone who tends to avoid dangerous or unfamiliar situations).
- Coordinate term: philobatic
- 2017, Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, New Haven, C.T., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 92:
- The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'.
Translations
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ “ocnophilic, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
