Usually means: Fear of urinating in public.
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  1. paruresis: Merriam-Webster
  2. paruresis: Wiktionary
  3. paruresis: Dictionary.com
  4. Paruresis: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (paruresis)

▸ noun:  The inability to urinate in the presence of others.

Similar:
performance anxiety, parcopresis, paruria, aconuresis, apareunia, enuresis, pant-wetting, aspermy, pneumaturia, dysuria, more...

Opposite:
parcopresis, shy bowel syndrome

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Similar:
performance anxiety, parcopresis, paruria, aconuresis, apareunia, enuresis, pant-wetting, aspermy, pneumaturia, dysuria, more...

Opposite:
parcopresis, shy bowel syndrome



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