MEANING
Tending to withdraw from threatening or uncomfortable situations.
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- avoidant behavior
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Avoidant behavior kept him from the meeting.
The therapist discussed her avoidant response.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more avoidant; superlative most avoidant where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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