Agoraphilia

Quick meaning: Agoraphilia is a noun meaning The love of public life, crowds, and activity.

Meaning

The love of public life, crowds, and activity.

More Meanings

1. The love of wide open empty spaces.
2. The love of the exotic and new.
3. A global perspective; a viewpoint that seeks to encompass the world.
4. A political stance that seeks to promote individual rights and public participation.

Example Sentences

Rebirth through agoraphilia is then a special instance of flight into reality.

Though not noticeably a sufferer from claustrophobia, he certainly experienced agoraphilia. He had itchy feet and ants in his pants.

Secondly, there is an enthusiasm for crowded confrontational scenes — what amounts to an intellectual agoraphilia, one which will climax in Areopagitica.

My father is a lover of the agora: agoraphilia is his addiction. My father's passion for the agora is such that he never wishes to leave it. He does not like to leave the town.

Related Words

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