Definition of hikikomori in English:

hikikomori

noun hɪˌkɪkə(ʊ)ˈmɔːrihiˌkēkəˈmôri

mass noun

1(in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males.
（日本青少年的）茧居，家里蹲
Example sentencesExamples
- Teenagers labeled hikikomori, will sometimes hole themselves up in their rooms for months with no social contact.
- Shutting Themselves In by Maggie Jones, about the agoraphobic Japanese hikikomori syndrome.
- Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine.
- Tamaki Saito, the psychiatrist who coined the term hikikomori believes there are more than a million cases.
- A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values.
- Japan's health ministry classifies hikikomori as a social phenomenon rather than a disease and victims also display symptoms of insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, agoraphobia and persecution complexes.
- For now, Eastern and Western psychologists agree only that hikikomori is unique to Japan and has serious ramifications for both generations.
- Susumu Ito is one of those who has to live with hikikomori on a daily basis.
- Known in Japan as ' hikikomori ', or social withdrawal, it is a problem that has confused and confounded a country in which family ties are the bed-rock of society.
- Naoki Ogi, head of the private Centre for Clinical Research on School Development, in western Tokyo, estimates that as many as 800,000 people across Japan are victims of hikikomori.
- He calls it hikikomori, a coined-term for ' social withdrawal ', and has painted a portrait of the hikikomori-youth which mirrors the term ' couch-potato '.
- Yuichi Hattori, M.A., a psychologist currently treating 18 patients with the disorder, believes that hikikomori is caused by emotionally neglectful parenting.
- The very idea of the hikikomori is profoundly circular.
- Western psychologists compare hikikomori with social anxiety and agoraphobia, a fear of open places.
- The film certainly treads familiar waters, adding horror thrills to that increasingly significant social problem of the hikikomori (acute social withdrawal), but the cast is good enough.
- The decision is difficult, given that he the hikikomori is a profoundly circular and fantastic concept.
- Most consider hikikomori a problem within the family, rather than a psychological illness.
- Be sure to look at the viewer comments section where numerous respondents challenged the BBC claim that hikikomori was a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon.
- There's another intriguing documentary in the BBC's Correspondent series on Sunday: Japan: The Missing Million about hikikomori: a million Japanese boys who won't come out of their rooms.
- Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21.
1. 1.1count noun A person who avoids social contact.
  （不喜欢社交的茧居族）隐蔽青年
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 17-year-old hikikomori sufferer killed a passenger after leaving his self-imposed exile and hijacking a bus.
  Recounting his own experience, he said: "It's difficult to say when my son first began to be a hikikomori.
  While most hikikomori sufferers are merely anti-social, the condition has led to a number of violent crimes.
  Indeed, it is both haven and trap for the client, who describes himself as a hikikomori (extreme recluse).
  Synonyms
  recluse, introvert, lone wolf, hermit, solitary, misanthrope, outsider

Origin

Japanese, literally 'staying indoors, (social) withdrawal'.

Definition of hikikomori in US English:

hikikomori

nounhiˌkēkəˈmôri

1(in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males.
（日本青少年的）茧居，家里蹲
Example sentencesExamples
- Tamaki Saito, the psychiatrist who coined the term hikikomori believes there are more than a million cases.
- Western psychologists compare hikikomori with social anxiety and agoraphobia, a fear of open places.
- A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values.
- Naoki Ogi, head of the private Centre for Clinical Research on School Development, in western Tokyo, estimates that as many as 800,000 people across Japan are victims of hikikomori.
- Most consider hikikomori a problem within the family, rather than a psychological illness.
- Shutting Themselves In by Maggie Jones, about the agoraphobic Japanese hikikomori syndrome.
- Yuichi Hattori, M.A., a psychologist currently treating 18 patients with the disorder, believes that hikikomori is caused by emotionally neglectful parenting.
- Teenagers labeled hikikomori, will sometimes hole themselves up in their rooms for months with no social contact.
- He calls it hikikomori, a coined-term for ' social withdrawal ', and has painted a portrait of the hikikomori-youth which mirrors the term ' couch-potato '.
- Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21.
- For now, Eastern and Western psychologists agree only that hikikomori is unique to Japan and has serious ramifications for both generations.
- The decision is difficult, given that he the hikikomori is a profoundly circular and fantastic concept.
- Japan's health ministry classifies hikikomori as a social phenomenon rather than a disease and victims also display symptoms of insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, agoraphobia and persecution complexes.
- There's another intriguing documentary in the BBC's Correspondent series on Sunday: Japan: The Missing Million about hikikomori: a million Japanese boys who won't come out of their rooms.
- Susumu Ito is one of those who has to live with hikikomori on a daily basis.
- Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine.
- Be sure to look at the viewer comments section where numerous respondents challenged the BBC claim that hikikomori was a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon.
- Known in Japan as ' hikikomori ', or social withdrawal, it is a problem that has confused and confounded a country in which family ties are the bed-rock of society.
- The film certainly treads familiar waters, adding horror thrills to that increasingly significant social problem of the hikikomori (acute social withdrawal), but the cast is good enough.
- The very idea of the hikikomori is profoundly circular.
1. 1.1 A person who avoids social contact.
  （不喜欢社交的茧居族）隐蔽青年
  Example sentencesExamples
  A 17-year-old hikikomori sufferer killed a passenger after leaving his self-imposed exile and hijacking a bus.
  While most hikikomori sufferers are merely anti-social, the condition has led to a number of violent crimes.
  Indeed, it is both haven and trap for the client, who describes himself as a hikikomori (extreme recluse).
  Recounting his own experience, he said: "It's difficult to say when my son first began to be a hikikomori.
  Synonyms
  recluse, introvert, lone wolf, hermit, solitary, misanthrope, outsider

Origin

Japanese, literally ‘staying indoors, (social) withdrawal’.

单词	hikikomori
释义	Definition of hikikomori in English: hikikomori noun hɪˌkɪkə(ʊ)ˈmɔːrihiˌkēkəˈmôri mass noun 1(in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males. （日本青少年的）茧居，家里蹲 Example sentencesExamples Teenagers labeled hikikomori, will sometimes hole themselves up in their rooms for months with no social contact. Shutting Themselves In by Maggie Jones, about the agoraphobic Japanese hikikomori syndrome. Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine. Tamaki Saito, the psychiatrist who coined the term hikikomori believes there are more than a million cases. A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values. Japan's health ministry classifies hikikomori as a social phenomenon rather than a disease and victims also display symptoms of insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, agoraphobia and persecution complexes. For now, Eastern and Western psychologists agree only that hikikomori is unique to Japan and has serious ramifications for both generations. Susumu Ito is one of those who has to live with hikikomori on a daily basis. Known in Japan as ' hikikomori ', or social withdrawal, it is a problem that has confused and confounded a country in which family ties are the bed-rock of society. Naoki Ogi, head of the private Centre for Clinical Research on School Development, in western Tokyo, estimates that as many as 800,000 people across Japan are victims of hikikomori. He calls it hikikomori, a coined-term for ' social withdrawal ', and has painted a portrait of the hikikomori-youth which mirrors the term ' couch-potato '. Yuichi Hattori, M.A., a psychologist currently treating 18 patients with the disorder, believes that hikikomori is caused by emotionally neglectful parenting. The very idea of the hikikomori is profoundly circular. Western psychologists compare hikikomori with social anxiety and agoraphobia, a fear of open places. The film certainly treads familiar waters, adding horror thrills to that increasingly significant social problem of the hikikomori (acute social withdrawal), but the cast is good enough. The decision is difficult, given that he the hikikomori is a profoundly circular and fantastic concept. Most consider hikikomori a problem within the family, rather than a psychological illness. Be sure to look at the viewer comments section where numerous respondents challenged the BBC claim that hikikomori was a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon. There's another intriguing documentary in the BBC's Correspondent series on Sunday: Japan: The Missing Million about hikikomori: a million Japanese boys who won't come out of their rooms. Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21. 1.1count noun A person who avoids social contact. （不喜欢社交的茧居族）隐蔽青年 Example sentencesExamples A 17-year-old hikikomori sufferer killed a passenger after leaving his self-imposed exile and hijacking a bus. Recounting his own experience, he said: "It's difficult to say when my son first began to be a hikikomori. While most hikikomori sufferers are merely anti-social, the condition has led to a number of violent crimes. Indeed, it is both haven and trap for the client, who describes himself as a hikikomori (extreme recluse). Synonyms recluse, introvert, lone wolf, hermit, solitary, misanthrope, outsider Origin Japanese, literally 'staying indoors, (social) withdrawal'. Definition of hikikomori in US English: hikikomori nounhiˌkēkəˈmôri 1(in Japan) the abnormal avoidance of social contact, typically by adolescent males. （日本青少年的）茧居，家里蹲 Example sentencesExamples Tamaki Saito, the psychiatrist who coined the term hikikomori believes there are more than a million cases. Western psychologists compare hikikomori with social anxiety and agoraphobia, a fear of open places. A syndrome known as hikikomori, in which the outside world is shunned, is wreaking havoc on young people in Japan, a country known for its communal values. Naoki Ogi, head of the private Centre for Clinical Research on School Development, in western Tokyo, estimates that as many as 800,000 people across Japan are victims of hikikomori. Most consider hikikomori a problem within the family, rather than a psychological illness. Shutting Themselves In by Maggie Jones, about the agoraphobic Japanese hikikomori syndrome. Yuichi Hattori, M.A., a psychologist currently treating 18 patients with the disorder, believes that hikikomori is caused by emotionally neglectful parenting. Teenagers labeled hikikomori, will sometimes hole themselves up in their rooms for months with no social contact. He calls it hikikomori, a coined-term for ' social withdrawal ', and has painted a portrait of the hikikomori-youth which mirrors the term ' couch-potato '. Some 40 percent of hikikomori are below the age of 21. For now, Eastern and Western psychologists agree only that hikikomori is unique to Japan and has serious ramifications for both generations. The decision is difficult, given that he the hikikomori is a profoundly circular and fantastic concept. Japan's health ministry classifies hikikomori as a social phenomenon rather than a disease and victims also display symptoms of insomnia, obsessive-compulsive disorders, agoraphobia and persecution complexes. There's another intriguing documentary in the BBC's Correspondent series on Sunday: Japan: The Missing Million about hikikomori: a million Japanese boys who won't come out of their rooms. Susumu Ito is one of those who has to live with hikikomori on a daily basis. Visible in news reports and conjured in fans ' feverish minds, the hikikomori is now spectacle, exactly what he can't imagine. Be sure to look at the viewer comments section where numerous respondents challenged the BBC claim that hikikomori was a peculiarly Japanese phenomenon. Known in Japan as ' hikikomori ', or social withdrawal, it is a problem that has confused and confounded a country in which family ties are the bed-rock of society. The film certainly treads familiar waters, adding horror thrills to that increasingly significant social problem of the hikikomori (acute social withdrawal), but the cast is good enough. The very idea of the hikikomori is profoundly circular. 1.1 A person who avoids social contact. （不喜欢社交的茧居族）隐蔽青年 Example sentencesExamples A 17-year-old hikikomori sufferer killed a passenger after leaving his self-imposed exile and hijacking a bus. While most hikikomori sufferers are merely anti-social, the condition has led to a number of violent crimes. Indeed, it is both haven and trap for the client, who describes himself as a hikikomori (extreme recluse). Recounting his own experience, he said: "It's difficult to say when my son first began to be a hikikomori. Synonyms recluse, introvert, lone wolf, hermit, solitary, misanthrope, outsider Origin Japanese, literally ‘staying indoors, (social) withdrawal’.
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