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Definition of Stage fright
1. Noun. Fear that affects a person about to face an audience.
Definition of Stage fright
1. Noun. A state of nervousness about performing some action in front of a group of people, on or off of a stage; nerves; uncertainty; a lack of self-assurance before an audience. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stage Fright
Literary usage of Stage fright
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"There was a pause, SEVERE CASE OF STAGE-FRIGHT. and then another; pres- ently
came a third, and before I well knew what I was about, I was in the middle of ..."
2. Autobiography of an Actress; Or, Eight Years on the Stage: Or, Eight Years by Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt Ritchie (1854)
"—An. Architect's Attack of stage fright. — The Prevalence of Bronchitis amongst
Actors ludicrously exhibited at Rehearsal, — Broadway Theatre. ..."
3. The Companionship of Books and Other Papers by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1906)
"STAGE-FRIGHT THE announcement in the Albany Evening Journal of March 8, 1899, of
the death from stage-fright of Mrs. Dennis Tabor, opens up a large field of ..."
4. Companionship of Books: And Other Papers by Frederic Rowland Marvin (1905)
"... STAGE-FRIGHT THE announcement in the Albany Evening Journal of March 8, 1899,
of the death from stage-fright of Mrs. Dennis Tabor, opens up a large ..."
5. The Philosophy of Singing by Clara Kathleen (Barnett) Rogers (1893)
"And yet, when we ask what is stage-fright—is it an effect or is it a cause? ...
In this way people have gradually come to accept stage-fright as an ..."
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