单词 | agoraphobe |
释义 | agoraphoben.adj. A. n. A person affected with agoraphobia; = agoraphobic n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears > person hydrophobist1840 phobist1883 acrophobe1894 agoraphobe1894 agoraphobic1898 ailurophobe1905 claustrophobe1911 phobiac1911 phobic1911 arachnophobe1925 claustrophobiac1934 claustrophobic1953 mycophobe1957 aerophobe1966 necrophobe1973 computerphobe1974 aerophobic1978 computer-phobic1983 toxiphobiac- 1894 Canada Lancet 26 265/2 Let the agoraphobe approach a house, his courage returns. 1925 Times 27 May 14/2 One need not be a professed misanthrope nor a shrinking agoraphobe to deplore the day when gardening became the fashion. 1984 Forbes 18 June 82/2 Schwartz, now 60, is an agoraphobe..who rarely leaves his studio. 2009 New Yorker 9 Mar. 16/1 Bong exercises his apocalyptic imagination in a trifle about a hikikomori, or agoraphobe, who is forced out of his cloistered life by an earthquake. B. adj. (attributive). Characteristic of or suitable for an agoraphobe. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears > causing agoraphobe1953 1953 R. P. Hinks Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio iii. 45 It was an unsatisfying experiment, to his apparently agoraphobe mind; and he now returns, with evident relief, to a huddle of alluring youths. 1958 Listener 13 Nov. 776/1 This entirely synthetic agoraphobe arcadia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.1894 |
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