sociofugal

The story

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.

First known use, by meaning

• from 1957 Of a place, etc.: involving the arrangement of a group of people so that each person can maintain some privacy from the others.