agoraphobeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

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agoraphobe (plural agoraphobes)

1. Someone who suffers from agoraphobia.
   • 1974, Erwin Lausch, Manipulation; dangers and benefits of brain research:

     Through such substances the agoraphobes could come to like open spaces, and the 'scotophobes' enjoy the dark.

   • 1998, Jim Mortimore, chapter 3, in Beltempest, page 73:

     She has never considered herself either a claustrophobe or an agoraphobe but, well, this was different. This was both fears together – the fear of wide-open spaces jammed shoulder to shoulder with angry people.

   • 2007 November 4, Dave Itzkoff, “A Satirical Sit-Coms Memorable Music”, in New York Times‎:

     The following season Mr. Murphy composed an original Broadway-style number for a scene in which Brian the dog attempts to persuade an elderly agoraphobe to leave her home.