claustrophobian.
/ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbɪə/, /ˌklɒstrəˈfəʊbɪə/, U.S. /ˌklɔstrəˈfoʊbiə/, /ˌklɑstrəˈfoʊbiə/ Medicine.
A morbid dread of confined places; also transferred.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [noun] > irrational fears
pneumatophobia1678
hydrophobia1760
aerophobia1771
panophobia1784
phobia1786
pantophobia1807
necrophobia1833
phoby1834
syphilomania1838
hippophobia1840
phonophobia1841
syphilophobia1842
scotophobia1844
astrophobia1855
sitomania1859
sitophobia1859
thanatophobia1860
Satanophobia1861
batrachophobia1863
panphobia1870
agoraphobia1871
bogyphobia1872
pathophobia1873
aquaphobia1875
toxiphobia1876
claustrophobia1879
cynophobia1879
mysophobia1879
siderodromophobia1879
phthisiophobia1883
sitiophobia1884
ochlophobia1885
sitiomania1887
acrophobia1888
zoophobia1888
leprophobia1889
nosophobia1889
pamphobia1890
bacteriophobia1894
tuberculophobia1894
taeniiphobia1897
thalassophobia1897
topophobia1899
dysmorphophobia1900
akathisia1903
cremnophobia1903
musicophobia1903
ailurophobia1905
brontophobia1905
phobism1914
arachnophobia1925
school phobia1930
coprophobia1934
mycophobia1957
arachniphobia1966
computer phobia1972
coulrophobia1997
1879 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Sept. 371/1 On Claustrophobia. By B. Ball, M.D. (Paris).
1886 Buck's Handbk. Med. Sci. III. 51/1 Well-marked cases of anthropophobia,..claustrophobia, and what might be called pyrophobia.
1895 tr. M. S. Nordau Degeneration 242 It was unnecessary for Magnan to give a special name to each sympton of degeneration, and to draw up in array..the host of ‘phobias’ and ‘manias’. Agoraphobia (fear of open space), claustrophobia (fear of enclosed space), rupophobia (fear of dirt) [etc.].
1906 Westm. 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.
1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey i. v Having a sort of mental claustrophobia, a dread of being hemmed-in by people.
1960 Spectator 29 Apr. 612 The Germanic claustrophobia of Serjeant Musgrave's Dance or the British claustrophilia of Live Like Pigs.
Derivatives
ˌclaustroˈphobiac adj. and n. (one who is) suffering from or characterized by claustrophobia.
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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adjective] > having irrational fears
hydrophobous1748
necrophobic1857
pantophobic1857
agoraphobic1878
claustrophobic1889
pantophobous1893
phobic1897
ailurophobic1905
claustrophobiac1934
scotophobic1936
phobiac1944
mycophobic1957
school-phobic1960
aquaphobic1968
ochlophobic1976
computer-phobic1983
arachniphobe1984
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-
1934 R. Campbell Broken Rec. 21 All my early verse..is a violent claustrophobiac struggle to keep my individual being.
1937 E. St. V. Millay Conv. at Midnight 60 Proletarian poetry today..is the love-song of the claustrophobiac who has espoused the crowd.
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