stage fright

1. 1.

   fear that affects a person about to face an audience

   Broaderfear

Questions about stage fright

What does stage fright mean?

stage fright means "fear that affects a person about to face an audience".

Is stage fright a common word?

stage fright 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.