agoraphobia

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agoraphobia

a pathological fear of being in public places, often resulting in the sufferer becoming housebound

agoraphobia

[ə‚gȯr·ə′fōb·ē·ə]

(psychology)

Abnormal fear of open places.

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7) And it is difficult not to read the heart of a conflicted agoraphobe into Arnold's complaint of a world divided between living either in tormented solitude or suffering infection by "unavoidable contact with millions of small [natures].

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De Niro is in talks to star as an obsessive-compulsive agoraphobe who is forced to leave his home for the first time in six years to avert a murder.

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His lead character, Pullman's Daryl Zero, is a paranoid agoraphobe who musters savvy self-confidence when he's working a case.