I'm trying to find an accurate word which sums up a few traits

[Mr.Burke]

If a person rejects most physical, emotional, and intellectual interactions within the world, what does that make them? (By reject I mean is either not interested in or morally disapproves of)

At first, I assumed it would be an INTP.

Then again, that doesn't seem to be the case, as INTPs are more selective. But then upon making that judgment, I found them to be more general.

Thus I need a new word to describe the mentioned qualities together in a person.

 

[Stoic Beverage]

Uh...
Closed-off? Withdrawn?
Damn, online thesauruses don't work for long descriptions...

 

[Mr.Burke]

Uh...
Closed-off? Withdrawn?
Damn, online thesauruses don't work for long descriptions...

But does that work for being morally offended over those aspects? Being "closed-off" I mean.

 

[Fukyo]

Indignant isolationist.

 

[Mr.Burke]

Indignant isolationist.

That seemed like it would work, but it seems like isolationist is defined differently.

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m)n. A national policy of abstaining from political or economic relations with other countries.

 

[pjoa09]

limbo?

 

[Dapper Dan]

A recluse?

 

[Meer]

Schizoid, maybe?

That seems to be a lot of rejection.

 

[EditorOne]

The word you are looking for is "hermit," like St. Jerome living in a desert for two years because he rejected the world and his values. (My memory isn't that good. He was included in Merriam-Webster when I doublechecked my recollection that "hermit" covered all aspects of the OP's offering.) Rejection of the world and withdrawal from the world are traditionally painted with religious colors. Find some like-minded mates and you can start a monastery.
There seems to be no secular equivalent for "hermit," but it's been used in a secular way for a long time. Besides, anyone who might mind is in a desert somewhere.

 

[Mr.Burke]

This was an experiment to test what connotations people would use.

Interesting that if you word it a certain way people will imply neutral connotations.

If you word it in a way which expresses said offenses people will likely create an overwhelmingly negative reaction.

So if I said what do you call a person who believes in x and x and what have you. "That sounds like an asshole", replied everyone.

Yet using the more ambiguous general terms works just fine. Hmm.

 

[sammael]

So if I said what do you call a person who believes in x and x and what have you. "That sounds like an asshole", replied everyone.

Heh, are you saying INTPs are assholes?

 

[EditorOne]

You're assuming we added value judgments to words like "indignant isolationist" or "hermit." This is not the personality type to attach values like "asshole" to words like "indignant isolationist" or "schizoid." They are descriptive words. Whether they are used in a derogatory fashion is going to take a little more work, don't you think?
Did you get your permit for that test, by the way? If not, there's a $200 fine, payable to me. They money is donated to the retirement/convalescent center for INTPs, Etre Seul, a series of non-connected hand-dug rooms in the Cappadocia region of Central Anatolia, where overstressed INTPs can heal in blissful solitude and have simple meals served twice a day by a monastic order dedicated to service and silence.

 

[Mr.Burke]

You're assuming we added value judgments to words like "indignant isolationist" or "hermit." This is not the personality type to attach values like "asshole" to words like "indignant isolationist" or "schizoid." They are descriptive words. Whether they are used in a derogatory fashion is going to take a little more work, don't you think?

It's actually a lot more common than you might think. There are a lot of misconceptions about INTPs. They tend to be just as judgmental as other people overall.

It is almost counter intuitive. If you want some examples just look at the posts by fellow INTPs in any threads I have created (not intended to be self-promotion, it's just the only examples I can think of).

 

[snafupants]

Schizoid, maybe?

That seems to be a lot of rejection.

Good call. That person could also be snobbish, retarded (sometimes the same), autistic, nihilistic, foreign, frightened...schizoid fits pretty well. Isolationist definitely has a more humanistic meaning in addition to jingoist, chauvinistic, nationalistic, and the like. More information is needed to differentiate between, say, intellectual nihilism and schizoid.

 

[Dapper Dan]

So if I said what do you call a person who believes in x and x and what have you. "That sounds like an asshole", replied everyone.

Wait, are you talking about this thread? Because no one said anything even remotely close to that.

 

[pjoa09]

It's actually a lot more common than you might think. There are a lot of misconceptions about INTPs. They tend to be just as judgmental as other people overall.

It is almost counter intuitive. If you want some examples just look at the posts by fellow INTPs in any threads I have created (not intended to be self-promotion, it's just the only examples I can think of).

Really confused here, you gave a description you got the word for the description you provided and now I am being informed that you were expecting emotionally fueled judgemental offensive words?

 

[rattymat]

What exactly do you mean by interactions? Is this solely in terms of relating physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects with others? And if so, what exactly is your relationship to physical, emotional, and intellectual aspects independent of interaction?

 

[Auburn]

If a person rejects most physical, emotional, and intellectual interactions within the world, what does that make them? (By reject I mean is either not interested in or morally disapproves of)

Dead? :3
(Hermit is good though.)

It's actually a lot more common than you might think. There are a lot of misconceptions about INTPs. They tend to be just as judgmental as other people overall.

- On what are you basing your own conception of INTP?
- And how do you know the misconception lies in others' if theirs differs from yours?

It is almost counter intuitive. If you want some examples just look at the posts by fellow INTPs in any threads I have created (not intended to be self-promotion, it's just the only examples I can think of).

- On what basis do you assume the members here are INTPs?
- On what basis do you believe the threads you post in are an accurate representation of the community?

 

[Zionoxis]

Heh, are you saying INTPs are assholes?

Could have sworn that was the INTJs' jobs.

 

[Ringo]

observer

 

[EmergingAlbert]

Schizoid, maybe?

That's exactly what I was going to say.