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noun

an abnormal fear of being in enclosed or narrow places.

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Origin:
1875–80; < Latin claustr(um) bolt (see claustrum) + -o- + -phobia

Can be confused: acrophobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia.

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Example Sentences

They must learn to overcome their innate claustrophobia to enter the starting gate.

It all connects with the oppressive claustrophobia and the disfunctional relationships.

Claustrophobia is arguably less of a choice than being fat, after all.

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They must learn to overcome their innate claustrophobia to enter the starting gate.

It all connects with the oppressive claustrophobia and the disfunctional relationships.

Claustrophobia is arguably less of a choice than being fat, after all.

Minimalist backpacking tents work fine during slumber but can leave you fighting claustrophobia during waking hours.

However, they can lead to a miserable lifeless existence of claustrophobia underneath a fluorescent sun.

The winged shape and the ample width of the counter are carefully chosen to create intimacy without a feeling of claustrophobia.

Once the engine is turned off, the air gets stifling, adding to the claustrophobia.

Bring your own soft kneepads and check your claustrophobia at the entrance.

Soderbergh constructs a tale of jealousy and claustrophobia involving three doll-factory workers.

Once inside the suit a wave of claustrophobia and nausea gripped me.

I'd asked only afterward about the awful banging and claustrophobia inside that tube.

Households are vibrating with relief and claustrophobia as relatives displaced by the quake seek shelter.

While he wrote evocatively about small-town people, their modest yearnings and the claustrophobia of their.

Mulligan loses the element of claustrophobia that might have taken an audience's mind off the screenplay's troubles.

Singleton examines a more sprawling form of claustrophobia and a more adolescent angst.

Some of the movie's strongest moments evoke the excruciating tension and claustrophobia of growing up in a dysfunctional family.

Dan sings it out loud to combat his claustrophobia while squirming through a.

Jake's problem is that he has claustrophobia and panics every time he has to climb into his movie coffin.

He's an obsessive who's found a way to portray claustrophobia in wide-open urban space.

Audi engineers would have done well to remember that some drivers also experience claustrophobia in stop-and-go traffic.

Ozon's previous exercise in theatrical claustrophobia.

But more often they traded claustrophobia for carnival.

Yet those silences go on to build an unnerving sense of claustrophobia and isolation.

Scally never quite capture the minor claustrophobia of their records.

Pulling the door shut does not set off the claustrophobia alarms.

The big ceiling makes for a low claustrophobia level.

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World English Dictionary

claustrophobia (ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə, ˌklɒs-)

—n
	an abnormal fear of being closed in or of being in a confined space

[C19: from claustro-, from Latin claustrumcloister + -phobia]

'claustrophobe

—n

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Word Origin & History

claustrophobia

coined 1879 (first in article by B.Ball in "British Medical Journal"), from L. claustrum "a bolt, place shut in," pp. of claudere "to close" (see close (v.)) + Gk. phobos "fear" (see phobia).

American Heritage

Medical Dictionary

claustrophobia claus·tro·pho·bi·a (klô'strə-fō'bē-ə)
n.
An abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces.

claus'tro·phobe' n.
claus'tro·pho'bic adj.

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Cultural Dictionary

claustrophobia [(klaw-struh-foh-bee-uh)]

An abnormal fear of being shut in or enclosed.

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