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performance anxiety en · NOUN

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Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.
2. (uncountable, usually) A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.
3. (uncountable, 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:

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fi suorituspaine (anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance) · sv prestationsångest (anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance) · cmn 性無能 /性无能 (anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance)