agoraphobia
UK/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə//ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
agoraphobia noun: the fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
Noun
agoraphobia (plural agoraphobias)
- 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[…]1981, Donald F. Klein, Judith G. Rabkin, Anxiety: new research and changing concepts
- An aversion to markets.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.
agoraphobia meaning in Tamil, Kannada, Arabic and Indonesian
agoraphobia in Tamil
- திறந்த வெளியைக் கண்டு பீதி, திறந்த வெளி அச்சம், வெட்டவெளி அச்சம், திடல் மருட்சி, பொதுஇடங்களைத் தாண்டுதலில் அச்சம்
agoraphobia in Kannada
- ಬಯಲಂಜಿಕೆ, ಬಯಲಬೆದರಿಕೆ, ಸಂದಣಿಯಂಜಿಕೆ, ಗದ್ದಲದಂಜಿಕೆ, ಕಿಕ್ಕಿರಿಯಂಜಿಕೆ, ದಟ್ಟಣೆಯಂಜಿಕೆ
agoraphobia in Arabic
- fear of open spaces
- رَهَاب الخَلَاء rahāb al-ḵalāʔ
agoraphobia in Indonesian
- fear of open spaces
- agorafobia
More languagesFewer languages
- agoraphobia in Thai
- โรคกลัวที่ชุมชน rôok-gluua-tîi-chum-chon, อาการกลัวที่โล่ง aa-gaan-gluua-tîi-lôong
Forms of agoraphobia
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Origin of agoraphobia
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.
Words formed from agoraphobia
Words that rhyme with agoraphobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
- xenophobia
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- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
- hippophobia
Questions about agoraphobia
- What does agoraphobia mean?
- Agoraphobia means the fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.
- What is agoraphobia in Tamil?
- Agoraphobia in Tamil is திறந்த வெளியைக் கண்டு பீதி, திறந்த வெளி அச்சம், வெட்டவெளி அச்சம். See Agoraphobia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is agoraphobia?
- Agoraphobia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce agoraphobia?
- Agoraphobia is pronounced /ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of agoraphobia?
- The plural of agoraphobia is agoraphobias.
Words near agoraphobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: agoraphobia (page history and authors); agoraphobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); agoraphobia (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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