English Dictionary

agoraphilia

noun

The love of public life, crowds, and activity. / The love of wide open empty spaces. / The love of the exotic and new. / A global perspective; a viewpoint that seeks to encompass the world.

She has a deep agoraphilia and enjoys being in crowded places.

意味（1）

The love of public life, crowds, and activity.

First, the Athenians suffered from an acute case of agoraphilia. They seemed to center a large portion of their daily lives around the activities of the public gathering places; hence, the temples and the agora would be the most likely places at which the relatives might see the slayer.

意味（2）

The love of wide open empty spaces.

Its spacious market places, with their architectural colonnades, and its suburban gymnasia, ringed by trees, evidence not agoraphobia but agoraphilia — love of openness — wherever it was possible.

意味（3）

The love of the exotic and new.

If it is also a disguised form of agoraphilia, a desire of other other places, it follows that the arena of its poetics is public space and its re-imagining".

意味（4）

A global perspective; a viewpoint that seeks to encompass the world.

This agoraphilia, this altitudinous, map-maker's vision is with him from start to finish of his life's work.

意味（5）

A political stance that seeks to promote individual rights and public participation.

The administration's philosophy might be described as agoraphilia: love of the marketplace. It was summed up in the 1985 budget: This strategy recognizes that most of the decisions about using and producing energy in this country are made by millions of individuals ...