performance anxiety

English

Noun

performance anxiety (usually uncountable, plural performance anxieties)

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

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