English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

sociofugal

The origin and history of 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.

← Back to the full definition of sociofugal
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.