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sociofugal

The origin and history of sociofugal.

Etymology

Formed from socio- (a prefix meaning ‘society’) and -fugal (a suffix meaning ‘travelling out from’). It was coined by the English psychiatrist Humphry Osmond (1917–2004) in 1957: see the quotation.

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