social phobia

What does social phobia mean?

social phobia means "any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with situations in which you are subject to criticism by others (as fear of eating in public or public speaking etc)".

Is social phobia a common word?

social phobia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for social phobia come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.