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agoraphobia

noun
/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/UK/ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/US/əˌɡoː.ɹəˈfəʉ.biː.ə/

Etymology

From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). By surface analysis, agora + -phobia. Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.

  1. derived from ἀγορά
  2. learned borrowing from agoraphobia

Definitions

  1. The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

    • Now, you know that the classical analytical explanation of agoraphobia of the early 1900s was that it represented a street phobia because the patient equated streetwalking with prostitutional activity[…]

  2. An aversion to markets.

    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.

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