agoraphobia

English

Etymology

From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “agora (gathering of people or place of gathering)”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). Analyzable as agora +‎ -phobia.

Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/, /əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
• (US) enPR: ăg'ər-ə-fōʹbē-ə, ə-goɹ'ə-fōʹbē-ə; IPA^(key): /ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/, /əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/

  • Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

agoraphobia (plural agoraphobias)

1. The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
   • 1981, Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts:

     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. (rare) An aversion to markets.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.

Derived terms

• agoraphobiac

 

Translations

fear of open spaces

• Alemannic German: agoraphobie
• Arabic: رَهَاب الخَلَاء m (rahāb al-ḵalāʔ)
• Belarusian: бо́язь прасто́ры f (bójazʹ prastóry)
• Bulgarian: агорафо́бия (bg) f (agorafóbija)
• Catalan: agorafòbia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 廣場恐懼症 / 广场恐惧症 (zh) (guǎngchǎng kǒngjùzhèng)

• Czech: agorafobie (cs) f
• Danish: agorafobi (da) c
• Dutch: agorafobie (nl) f
• Estonian: agorafoobia (et)
• Finnish: agorafobia (fi), torikammo (fi), aukean paikan kammo, torikauhu, aukiokammo
• French: agoraphobie (fr) f
• Georgian: აგორაფობია (ka) (agorapobia)
• German: Agoraphobie (de) f, Platzangst (de) f
• Greek: αγοραφοβία (el) f (agorafovía)
• Hebrew: אגורפוביה (he) (agorofovia)
• Hungarian: agorafóbia (hu)
• Icelandic: víðáttufælni f, torgageigur m (rare)
• Indonesian: agorafobia (id)
• Interlingua: agorafobia
• Irish: agrafóibe f, uamhan sráide m
• Italian: agorafobia (it) f
• Japanese: 広場恐怖症 (ひろばきょうふしょう, hiroba-kyōfushō)
• Korean: 광장공포증 (ko) (gwangjanggongpojeung)
• Latin: agoraphobia
• Lithuanian: agorafobija f
• Maori: mate mae ahoaho, mae ahoaho
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: agorafobi (no) m

  Nynorsk: agorafobi m

• Polish: agorafobia (pl) f
• Portuguese: agorafobia (pt) f
• Russian: агорафо́бия (ru) f (agorafóbija), боя́знь простра́нства f (bojáznʹ prostránstva)
• Slovene: agorafobíja f
• Spanish: agorafobia (es) f
• Swedish: agorafobi (sv) c, torgskräck (sv) c
• Thai: โรคกลัวที่ชุมชน (rôok-gluua-tîi-chum-chon), อาการกลัวที่โล่ง (aa-gaan-gluua-tîi-lôong)
• Turkish: agorafobi (tr)