sociofugal.
Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can maintain some privacy from the others.
Meaning & usage
Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can maintain some privacy from the others.
Where this word comes from
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.
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