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claustrophobia Med.|ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə|
[mod.L., f. L. claustrum confined space, cloister n. + -phobia.]
A morbid dread of confined places; also transf.
1879Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Sept. 371/1 On Claustrophobia. By B. Ball, M.D. (Paris). 1895[see -phobia]. 1906Westm. Gaz. 18 Apr. 2/1 Others of us who have felt..an inexplicable horror of remaining within four walls..now know that we are sufferers from Claustrophobia. 1924Galsworthy White Monkey i. v, Having a sort of mental claustrophobia, a dread of being hemmed-in by people. 1960[see prec.].
Hence ˌclaustroˈphobiac a. and n., (one who is) suffering from or characterized by claustrophobia.
1934R. Campbell Broken Record 21 All my early verse..is a violent claustrophobiac struggle to keep my individual being. 1937E. St. Vincent Millay Conv. at Midnight 60 Proletarian poetry today..is the love-song of the claustrophobiac who has espoused the crowd. |