Public speaking
Talking to audiences
Public speaking is the act of delivering a speech or presentation to a live audience, whether in formal settings like lectures and ceremonies or informal ones like toasts and meetings.
The term encompasses both the skill and the activity itself: someone might study public speaking or dread it.
Fear of public speaking—sometimes called glossophobia—ranks among the most common anxieties.
She took a public speaking course to prepare for her new role.
- fear of crowdsDistress around large groups
- CiceroAncient Rome's greatest speaker
- conferenceOrganized meeting for discussion
- articulationClear vocal expression
- microphoneAudio input device
keynote speech · Susan B. Anthony · storytelling · audience engagement · Frederick Douglass · debate · charisma · body language · eye contact · persuasion · Demosthenes · seminar · podium · rhetoric · confidence · Barack Obama · stump speech · teleprompter
Public speakingpillow talk
Intimate conversation in bed
tête-à-tête · internal monologue · heart-to-heart · small talk · self-talk
Public speakinglistening
Attending to sound
writing · silent reading · nonverbal communication · muteness · speechlessness
Public speakinganonymity
Unknown identity state
silence · hiding · reclusiveness · social withdrawal · staying quiet
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