agoraphobia

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/|/əˌɡɔː.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/    美 /ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/|/əˌɡɔɹ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/|/əˌɡoː.ɹəˈfəʉ.biː.ə/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
    — 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. An aversion to markets. rare
    — For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.

词形变化

agoraphobias plural

词汇关系

衍生词
agoraphobiac

词源

From Latin agoraphobia, from Ancient Greek ἀγορά (agorá, “assembly”) + φοβία (phobía, “fear”). By surface analysis, agora + -phobia.
Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.
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