claustrophoben.adj.
/ˈklɔːstrəfəʊb/, /ˈklɒstrəfəʊb/, U.S. /ˈklɔstrəˌfoʊb/, /ˈklɑstrəˌfoʊb/ A. n.
A person who suffers from claustrophobia.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears > person
hydrophobist1840
phobist1883
acrophobe1894
agoraphobe1894
agoraphobic1898
ailurophobe1905
claustrophobe1911
phobiac1911
phobic1911
arachnophobe1925
claustrophobiac1934
claustrophobic1953
mycophobe1957
aerophobe1966
necrophobe1973
computerphobe1974
aerophobic1978
computer-phobic1983
toxiphobiac-
1911 C. 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.
1954 English & 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.
1974 K. 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.
1977 Fortune Nov. 217/2 Many of the single rooms are very small, and claustrophobes will probably be bothered.
1987 New 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.
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the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious
narroweOE
straitc1290
unwidea1400
scanta1533
angust1540
roomless1548
pinched?1567
niggard1595
strict1598
straitened1602
pinching1607
incommodious1615
incapacious1635
over-strait1645
straiteninga1652
cramp1786
bottleneck1854
cramped1884
tight1937
claustrophobic1946
claustrophobe1954
1954 W. Faulkner Fable 410 A smell subterrene and claustrophobe and doomed to darkness.
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n.adj.1911