fear of crowds
Dreading packed spaces
Fear of crowds is an intense anxiety triggered by being surrounded by large groups of people.
The clinical term is enochlophobia, though the broader agoraphobia often encompasses it.
The fear may involve feeling trapped, unable to escape, or overwhelmed by proximity to strangers: Her fear of crowds kept her from attending concerts.
It differs from social anxiety, which centers on being judged rather than simply being among many bodies.
- agoraphobiaFear of public spaces
- social anxietyFear of being judged
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- panic attackSudden intense fear episode
- claustrophobiaDread of enclosed areas
anxiety · fight or flight · mob · throng · sea of faces · suffocating · can't breathe · overwhelmed · subway · rush hour · concert · stampede · escape · way out · trapped · sweating · heartbeat · strangers
- phobiasphobia, claustrophobia, agoraphobia, bibliophobia, acrophobia
- feardread, afraid, fright, frightened, panic
- social fearssocial anxiety, social phobia, shyness, self-consciousness, glossophobia
fear of crowdsgregariousness
Love of being social
sociability · extroversion · social butterfly · party animal · herd mentality
fear of crowdsautophobia
Fear of being alone
monophobia · fear of abandonment · extroversion · exhibitionism
fear, fears, feared, fearing, fearful, fearfully, fearfulness, fearless, fearlessly