English Explanatory Dictionary

sociofugal

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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

Pronunciation

/ˌsəʊ.si.ə(ʊ)ˈfjuː.ɡl̩/ /-ʃi-/ /ˌsoʊ.si.o(ʊ)ˈfju.ɡ(ə)l/

Word forms

sociofugal more sociofugal most sociofugal

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.

Antonyms

sociopetal

Derived words

sociofugality sociofugally
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