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performance anxieties

performance anxieties is the plural of performance anxiety.

Meaning of performance anxiety

Noun

performance anxiety (usually uncountable, plural performance anxieties)

  1. (usually) Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.
  2. (usually) A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.
  3. (usually) A similar anxiety about one's ability to urinate in the presence of others; paruresis.
    • 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.1999 May 21, Mary Roach, “Bashful Bladders”, in salon.com

Questions about performance anxieties

What is performance anxieties the plural of?
Performance anxieties is the plural of performance anxiety.

Words near performance anxieties in the dictionary

  1. perform'd
  2. performabilities
  3. performability
  4. performable
  5. performance
  6. performance anxieties
  7. performance anxiety
  8. performance arousal
  9. performance art
  10. performance artist
  11. performance artists

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