The story
- Ancient Greek · derived fromὀκνέω“to shrink from, fear, hesitate”
- English todayocnophil
From Ancient Greek ὀκνέω (oknéō, “to shrink from, fear, hesitate”) + -o- + -phile with the final "e" dropped. Coined by Hungarian psychoanalyst Michael Balint in 1955.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.