performance anxiety

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Noun

performance anxiety (usually uncountable, plural performance anxieties)

1. 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; paruresis.
   • 1999 May 21, Mary Roach, “Bashful Bladders”, in salon.com:

     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.

Translations

anxiety about performing in front of an audience — see stage fright

anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance

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  Mandarin: 性無能／性无能 (xìngwúnéng)

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