social anxiety disorder

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)də(ɹ)

Noun

social anxiety disorder (countable and uncountable, plural social anxiety disorders)

1. (clinical psychology, psychiatry) The most common anxiety disorder, characterized by intense fear in one or more social situations, causing considerable distress and impaired ability to function in at least some parts of daily life.

Synonyms

• social anxiety
• social phobia

Translations

the most common anxiety disorder

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社交恐懼症／社交恐惧症 (zh) (shèjiāo kǒngjùzhèng)

• Danish: socialfobi c, socialangst c
• Finnish: sosiaalisten tilanteiden pelko
• French: anxiété sociale f, phobie sociale f
• Galician: fobia social f, ansiedade social
• German: soziale Angststörung f
• Italian: fobia sociale f, sociofobia
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sosial angstlidelse, sosial fobi

• Portuguese: fobia social f, sociofobia
• Spanish: trastorno de ansiedad social m, ansiedad social f, fobia social (es) f
• Swedish: social fobi

See also

• selective mutism