cold-avoidant

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cold-avoidant (comparative more cold-avoidant, superlative most cold-avoidant)

  1. (psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the two subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by Lynn E. Alden and Martha J. Capreol in 1993 and characterized by an inability to experience and express positive emotion towards others.

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