(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder

The tendency of the neurons in a branched structure to turn away from each other

plural of cost avoidance

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of paranoid personality disorder

(simile) To evade or shun, if at all possible.

(psychiatry) A personality disorder characterized by an irrational fear of rejection and anxiety in social situations.

plural of avoidant personality disorder

simple past tense and past participle of avoid like the plague.

present participle of avoid like the plague.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of depressive personality disorder