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performance anxiety

noun

Definitions

  1. Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience

    Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.

  2. A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.

  3. A similar anxiety about one's ability to urinate in the presence of others

    A similar anxiety about one's ability to urinate in the presence of others; paruresis.

    • If someone can hear you, they can hear that you're not doing anything. It's a sort of performance anxiety that builds and feeds on itself.

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