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Meaning of "agoraphobia" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF AGORAPHOBIA

agoraphobia  [ˌæɡərəˈfəʊbɪə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF AGORAPHOBIA

noun
adjective
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pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Agoraphobia is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES AGORAPHOBIA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Agoraphobia

Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by anxiety in situations where the sufferer perceives certain environments as dangerous or uncomfortable, often due to the environment's vast openness or crowdedness. These situations include wide-open spaces, as well as uncontrollable social situations such as the possibility of being met in shopping malls, airports, and on bridges. Agoraphobia is defined within the DSM-IV TR as a subset of panic disorder, involving the fear of incurring a panic attack in those environments. In the DSM-5, however, agoraphobia is classified as being separate from panic disorder. The sufferer may go to great lengths to avoid those situations, in severe cases becoming unable to leave their home or safe haven. Although mostly thought to be a fear of public places, it is now believed that agoraphobia develops as a complication of panic attacks. However, there is evidence that the implied one-way causal relationship between spontaneous panic attacks and agoraphobia in DSM-IV may be incorrect. Onset is usually between ages 20 and 40 years and more common in women. Approximately 3.2 million, or about 2.

Definition of agoraphobia in the English dictionary

The definition of agoraphobia in the dictionary is a pathological fear of being in public places, often resulting in the sufferer becoming housebound.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH AGORAPHOBIA


acrophobia
ˌækrəˈfəʊbɪə
aerophobia
ˌɛərəˈfəʊbɪə
arachnophobia
əˌræknəˈfəʊbɪə
claustrophobia
ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə
emetophobia
ɪˌmetəˈfəʊbɪə
erythrophobia
ɪˌrɪθrəʊˈfəʊbɪə
homophobia
ˌhəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
hydrophobia
ˌhaɪdrəˈfəʊbɪə
Islamophobia
ˌɪzlɑːməˈfəʊbɪə
monophobia
ˌmɒnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
neophobia
ˌniːəʊˈfəʊbɪə
nomophobia
ˌnəʊməʊˈfəʊbɪə
nyctophobia
ˌnɪktəʊˈfəʊbɪə
phobia
ˈfəʊbɪə
phonophobia
ˌfəʊnəʊˈfəʊbɪə
photophobia
ˌfəʊtəʊˈfəʊbɪə
scopophobia
ˌskɒpəˈfəʊbɪə
technophobia
ˌtɛknəʊˈfəʊbɪə
triskaidekaphobia
ˌtrɪskaɪˌdɛkəˈfəʊbɪə
xenophobia
ˌzɛnəˈfəʊbɪə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE AGORAPHOBIA

agonized
agonizedly
agonizing
agonizingly
agonothetes
agony
agony aunt
agony column
agony uncle
agood
agora
agorae
agoraphobe
agoraphobic
agorot
Agostini
Agostino di Duccio
agouta
agouti
agouty

WORDS THAT END LIKE AGORAPHOBIA

aichmophobia
ailurophobia
algophobia
anglophobia
anthropophobia
aquaphobia
astraphobia
autophobia
gynophobia
mysophobia
necrophobia
ornithophobia
panophobia
pyrophobia
Russophobia
school phobia
sitophobia
social phobia
thanatophobia
Zenobia
zoophobia

Synonyms and antonyms of agoraphobia in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «agoraphobia» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF AGORAPHOBIA

Find out the translation of agoraphobia to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of agoraphobia from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «agoraphobia» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

广场恐怖症
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

agorafobia
570 millions of speakers

English

agoraphobia
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

भीड़ से डर लगना
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

الخوف من الأماكن المكشوفة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

агорафобия
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

agorafobia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

ভিতরের ভয়ের ব্যাধি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

agoraphobie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Agoraphobia
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Agoraphobie
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

広場恐怖症
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

광장 공포증
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Agoraphobia
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sợ đông đảo
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

மீதுள்ள
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऍग्रॅफोफिया
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

agorafobi
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

agorafobia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

agorafobię
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

агорафобія
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

agorafobie
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αγοραφοβία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

agorafobie
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

agorafobi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

agorafobi
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of agoraphobia

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «AGORAPHOBIA»

The term «agoraphobia» is regularly used and occupies the 76.540 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «AGORAPHOBIA» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about agoraphobia

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «AGORAPHOBIA»

Discover the use of agoraphobia in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to agoraphobia and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Agoraphobia Workbook: A Comprehensive Program to End ...
Whatever form agoraphobia takes, it is a highly treatable and surprisingly common anxiety disorder. The Agoraphobia Workbook can help you or someone you love overcome agoraphobia in any of its forms.
C. Alec Pollard, Elke Zuercher-White, 2003
2
Repressed Spaces: The Poetics of Agoraphobia
In Repressed Spaces Paul Carter tours the cultural history of agoraphobia, the fear of open space.
Paul Carter, 2004
3
From Agoraphobia to Zen
Description"From Agoraphobia to Zen," is the author's true story of her lifelong struggle with panic attacks, agoraphobia and food addiction.
Marilyn Mendoza, 2011
4
Narrating Social Order: Agoraphobia and the Politics of ...
Narrating Social Order provides the first critical sociological framework for understanding agoraphobia, as well as the issue of psychiatric classification more generally.
Shelley Zipora Reuter, 2007
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Constructing Panic: The Discourse of Agoraphobia
In this work Capps and Ochs propose a startling new view of agoraphobia as a communicative disorder.
Lisa. CAPPS, Elinor Ochs, Lisa Capps, 2009
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Agoraphobia: The Story of Jim Stokes
In Agoraphobia, an intriguing story of spiritual self-exploration, Jim Stokes gives us hope; hope that we will find what we are searching for, that we are capable of making positive choices.
John Welch, Joseph Welch, 2009
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Overcoming agoraphobia: conquering fear of the outside world
Describes a successful method for treating agoraphobia, provides exercises for sufferers to help them get out of the home and on to further treatment, and features special chapters on drugs and an evaluation of clinics
Alan J. Goldstein, Berry Stainback, 1988
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Overcoming Panic Disorder and Agoraphobia: Client Manual
Treatment interventions includ psychoeducation, greathing retraining, cognitive restructuring, interoceptive exposure, in vivo exposure & relapse prevention.Zuercher-White is the author of END2 and AGOR.
Elke Zuercher-White, 1999
9
Broken Inside! Breaking Free of Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia
I am a thirty six year old mother of two who was diagnosed with Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia.
Michelle Zulkowski, 2007
10
Textbook of Anxiety Disorders, Second Edition
However, data from the largest epidemiological surveys of psychiatric disorders in the United States seem to provide strong evidence that agoraphobia is not typically a consequence of panic disorder. In the National Institute of Mental Health ...
Dan J. Stein, Eric Hollander, Barbara O. Rothbaum, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «AGORAPHOBIA»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term agoraphobia is used in the context of the following news items.
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Lucker: I worry about everything
"I wouldn't say I have agoraphobia, but I don't like going out in the evenings now, I just like to know the family are in and safe at night. "I get very ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
2
Vicky Nash has emetophobia and is so scared of vomiting that …
On top of that, she finds it difficult to leave the house because of her agoraphobia, a fear of going outside which meant she couldn't even go ... «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
3
Heart of Americanness
The experience gives two distinctly paradoxical feelings. The emptiness can almost be frightening and induce agoraphobia — nothing changes ... «Gapers Block, Jul 15»
4
Roberto Saviano interview: 'Gomorrah' author on how writing a …
He has had trouble sleeping, suffers from agoraphobia, can only with the greatest difficulty, say, go out for a pizza, and feels a permanent ... «The Independent, Jul 15»
5
Karlovy Vary: Eaux Vives, Martin, Ivanov Prep 'At Dawn' (EXCLUSIVE)
A highlight at the Dubai Film Market Goes to Cannes, it centers on Radi, who suffers from serious agoraphobia. But he is forced out of his ... «Variety, Jul 15»
6
Veterans with dogs: 'without my dog I'd be dead'
Crippling panic attacks, depression, hyper-vigilance and agoraphobia left him increasingly isolated. He rarely ventured out of the house and ... «Channel 4 News, Jul 15»
7
What Is Toilet Phobia? As Teen Dies From Holding Her Bowel …
Agoraphobia – worrying about leaving the house unless there is a “safe” toilet that can be used combined with fears around soiling or urinating ... «Huffington Post UK, Jul 15»
8
Scoop: IZOMBIE on THE CW - Tuesday, July 21, 2015
Liv inherits intense agoraphobia after consuming his brains along with mad skills at computer gaming. This delights Ravi, who urges her to play ... «Broadway World, Jul 15»
9
Demi Lovato, Pete Wentz, Chris Brown And Other Stars Who Battled …
The celebrity chef and cooking show television host is enduring with depression and agoraphobia that was the result of panic attacks & anxiety ... «Movie News Guide, Jul 15»
10
'Vulnerable' brothers face eviction from Hurst Green home of 50 years
... who is based at Oxted Health Centre, wrote to the council last month, saying how Glen suffers from agoraphobia and "severe panic attacks". «Surrey Mirror, Jun 15»

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