- 1廣場恐懼症（也有人說懼曠症）
Agoraphobia is a strong fear of places that feel open, crowded, or hard to leave quickly — a market, a station, a wide street, a shopping mall, sometimes a bus. It is not only “I don’t like crowds.” It is “I might not get out, and then I will lose control.” Many people with it start staying home more and more, because home feels safe. Doctors use this word; friends might just say someone hates going out. The name was made as a medical word in 1871 by the German doctor Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal. It is built from Greek agora, the public square where people gathered, plus -, fear. The old picture is “fear of the public gathering place,” which is still close, though today the word also covers open space and being far from a safe exit.
組成Greek agora (the public square / place where people gathered) + -phobia (fear). Coined by Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal in 1871.
同家族的字
- agoraphobicthe person who has this fear, or the adjective for it
- claustrophobiasame -phobia piece: fear of closed-in places, almost the opposite setting
- agorathe Greek public square that the first half names
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
agoraphobianoun/ˌæɡ.ə.ɹəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/
- 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
rareAn aversion to markets.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:agoraphobia.
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