"performance anxiety" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-performance anxiety.wav Forms: performance anxieties [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} performance anxiety (usually uncountable, plural performance anxieties)
  1. Anxiety or fear about performing in front of an audience; stage fright. Tags: uncountable, usually
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  2. A similar anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance): 性無能 (Chinese Mandarin), 性无能 (xìngwúnéng) (Chinese Mandarin), suorituspaine (Finnish), prestationsångest (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-performance_anxiety-en-noun-gqIM9DdJ Disambiguation of "anxiety about the impressiveness of one's sexual performance": 16 59 25
  3. A similar anxiety about one's ability to urinate in the presence of others; paruresis. Tags: uncountable, usually Categories (topical): Sex
    Sense id: en-performance_anxiety-en-noun-e0BVwdCq Disambiguation of Sex: 16 35 50 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Finnish translations, Terms with Mandarin translations, Terms with Swedish translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 7 35 58 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 7 34 58 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 9 40 51 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 28 67 Disambiguation of Terms with Finnish translations: 11 25 64 Disambiguation of Terms with Mandarin translations: 9 21 70 Disambiguation of Terms with Swedish translations: 10 22 67

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