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Agoraphobia

//ˌæɡ.ɚ.əˈfoʊ.bi.ə// noun

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Noun

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
a morbid fear of open spaces (as fear of being caught alone in some public place) wordnet
3
An aversion to markets. rare
"For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia."

Etymology

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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