Etymology

paruresis

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Today it means: The inability to urinate in the presence of others. Full definition →

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The story

From para- (“abnormal, defective”) + -uresis (“urination”). The term was coined by Williams and Degenhart in their 1954 paper "Paruresis: A survey of a disorder of micturition" in the Journal of General Psychology 51:19-29.

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