Meanings
comparative more hodophilic · superlative most hodophilic
- Affected by hodophilia; having a love or an inclination for travelling.
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Therefore, findings of this study suggest that, marketers should focus on governmental efforts and Hodophile behavior more than rest of the factors as these factors plays important role in changing intentions to visit tourists’ destinations even in the time of deadly pandemic. They should promote Hodophilic personality traits in their commercials and motivate customers by convincing them that they are safe because government is working hard for the tourists.
2020, Shah et. al., “Coronavirus disease and human health: Postpone your tourism plans”, in Elementary Education Online, volume 19, number 4, Ankara: Maya Akademi, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLCEmploying Travelling Theory as its launch pad, this study examines the unappeasable mobility of African migrants in Habila's Travelers, by focusing attention on migration drivers fuelling hodophilic temperament in migrants’ survival mechanism put in place to survive in their newly found 'homes' abroad and narrative strategies employed in the representations of migritudinal temper.
2020, Solomon Olusayo Olaniyan, “Migritudinal Temper in Helon Habila's Travelers”, in Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies, volume 30, number 1, Ibadan, Nigeria: University of Ibadan, →ISSN, →OCLCAs a young – and hodophilic – child in what was then Bombay and later in Doha, my most constant companion was an old, sepia-toned globe that I loved to spin, before dropping my finger anywhere on its surface to stop it from rotating, and declaring that place, to which my finger would point, as one where I would live or visit someday.
2022 February 8, Ilan Kelman, editor, Antarcticness: Inspirations and Imaginaries, London: UCL Press, →ISBN, page 280 - medicineOf the dendrites of neurons: tending to form branches.
On the basis of our own observations we are inclined to believe that the following regions lack typical short-axon neurons: […] in general, all the regions where dendrites show marked hodophilic tendencies.
1968, Geoffrey H[oward] Bourne, editor, The Structure and Function of Nervous Tissue, Volume I: Structure I, New York, N.Y.; London: Academic Press, page 262Antonyms: hodophobic
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveOf the dendrites of neurons: tending to form branches.
Origin
From hodo- (“travel”) + -philic.
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