performance anxiety

noun — 3 senses

performance anxiety

noun
1

Usually Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright.

2

Usually A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance.

3

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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