Adjective: philobatic
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more philobatic |
| Superlative | most philobatic |
Sample Sentences
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Coordinate term: ocnophilic
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The philobatic environment consists of friendly spaces littered with unpredictable objects; the ocnophilic world consists of objects 'separated by horrid empty spaces'. [2017, Lynda Nead, The Tiger in the Smoke: Art and Culture in Post-War Britain, New Haven, C.T.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 92:]
Adjectives inflected like philobatic
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From philobat + -ic. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.