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hypersensitive avoidant

hypersensitive avoidant adjective: exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of paranoid personality disorder.

Adjective

hypersensitive avoidant (not comparable)

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

Questions about hypersensitive avoidant

What does hypersensitive avoidant mean?
Hypersensitive avoidant means exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of paranoid personality disorder.
What part of speech is hypersensitive avoidant?
Hypersensitive avoidant is an adjective.

Words near hypersensitive avoidant in the dictionary

  1. hypersensitise
  2. hypersensitised
  3. hypersensitises
  4. hypersensitising
  5. hypersensitive
  6. hypersensitive avoidant
  7. hypersensitively
  8. hypersensitiveness
  9. hypersensitivities
  10. hypersensitivity
  11. hypersensitization

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