paruresis

名词 n.
/ˌpɑːjʊˈriːsɪs/    /ˌpɑrjʊˈrisɪs/|/ˌpɑrəˈrisɪs/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The inability to urinate in the presence of others. uncountable
    — Completely normal men who develop prostatitis will suddenly come down with urinary paruresis as one of their symptoms.

词源

From para- (“abnormal, defective”) + -uresis (“urination”). The term was coined by Williams and Degenhart in their 1954 paper "Paruresis: A survey of a disorder of micturition" in the Journal of General Psychology 51:19-29.
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