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Agoraphobia vs Festival - What's the difference?

agoraphobia | festival |

As nouns the difference between agoraphobia and festival

is that agoraphobia is the fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions while festival is an event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

As an adjective festival is

pertaining to a feast or feast-day (now only as the noun used attributively).

agoraphobia

English

(wikipedia agoraphobia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fear of wide open spaces, crowds, or uncontrolled social conditions.

    • festival

    English

    (wikipedia festival)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.iii:
    • the temple of the Gods [...] / Whom all the people decke with girlands greene, / And honour in their festiuall resort [...].

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.
  • In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

    • Related terms

    * festive * festivities