单词 | performance anxiety |
释义 | > as lemmasperformance anxiety performance anxiety n. (a state of) nervousness or fear preceding or accompanying participation in a particular activity (typically either sexual intercourse or a public performance of some sort), esp. to the point where ability to carry out the activity is affected. ΚΠ 1960 Social Forces 38 226/1 (note) Since most wind players are soloists..the condition for a ‘performance anxiety’ is built into their job. 1976 Family Coordinator 25 236/1 The new norms yield expectations which..may increase couples' performance anxiety, male impotence, and female orgasmic dysfunction and frustration. 2002 N. Lebrecht Song of Names xi. 306 Call it performance anxiety or the worst case of stage fright in history, but I could not live with being less than I was cracked up to be. < as lemmas |
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