performance anxiety
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English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]performance anxiety (usually uncountable, plural performance anxieties)
- Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.
- A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.
- 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
[edit]anxiety about performing in front of an audience — see stage fright
anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance
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