| 单词 | shut-in-ness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshut-ˈin-ness shut-ˈin-ness n. the quality of being confined, secluded, or withdrawn into oneself. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > [noun] > confinement confinement1646 claustration1863 shut-in-ness1913 1913 D. H. Lawrence Let. ?10 June (1962) I. 210 The world gets a queer feeling of shut-in-ness, as if it stifled one, the horizon being too near, the sky too low. 1920 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 23/2 Leaving the bowl of the crater with its strange sense of shut-in-ness. 1952 Jrnl. Mental Sci. 98 310 There is evidence that shy, shut-in people are more liable to schizophrenia than outgoing folk, but this is disputed, and some psychiatrists maintain that the ‘shut-inness’ is just an early stage of the illness. < as lemmas |
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