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claustrophobe, n. and a.|ˈklɒstrəfəʊb|
[Back-formation f. claustrophobia n.: see -phobe.]
A. n. A person who suffers from claustrophobia.
1911C. A. Mercier Conduct & its Disorders vii. 111 Like the sufferer from agoraphobia, the claustrophobe experiences the revival of an instinct that has been dormant for untold generations. 1954English & Finch Introd. Psychiatry ix. 195 Such a patient, like the claustrophobe, fears his own inner, childish impulses. The agoraphobe fears his exhibitionistic and other sexual impulses. 1974K. Millett Flying i. 12 Nell showed me a volume of prison memoirs, thought I'd be pleased... Showing it to me, a claustrophobe, a coward. 1977Fortune Nov. 217/2 Many of the single rooms are very small, and claustrophobes will probably be bothered. 1987New Scientist 3 Dec. 83/4 While driving through the Fréjus tunnel between France and Italy I discovered that I'm a claustrophobe.
B. adj. Claustrophobic; stifling. rare.
1954W. Faulkner Fable 410 A smell subterrene and claustrophobe and doomed to darkness. |