agoraphilia

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The love of public life, crowds, and activity. uncountable
    — First, the Athenians suffered from an acute case of agoraphilia. They seemed to center a large portion of their daily lives around the activities of the public gathering places; hence, the temples and the agora would be the most likely places at which the relatives might see the slayer.
  2. The love of wide open empty spaces. uncountable
    — Its spacious market places, with their architectural colonnades, and its suburban gymnasia, ringed by trees, evidence not agoraphobia but agoraphilia — love of openness — wherever it was possible.
  3. The love of the exotic and new. uncountable
    — If it is also a disguised form of agoraphilia, a desire of other other places, it follows that the arena of its poetics is public space and its re-imagining".
  4. A global perspective; a viewpoint that seeks to encompass the world. uncountable
    — This agoraphilia, this altitudinous, map-maker's vision is with him from start to finish of his life's work.
  5. A political stance that seeks to promote individual rights and public participation. uncountable
    — The administration's philosophy might be described as "agoraphilia": love of the marketplace. It was summed up in the 1985 budget: "This strategy recognizes that most of the decisions about using and producing energy in this country are made by millions of individuals ..."

词源

From Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φιλία (philía, “love”).
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