claustrophobia
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- noun
- /ˌklɔːstrəˈfoʊbiə/
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claustrofobia
- - Come on hurry up, I get claustrophobia in closed places!
They test us for claustrophobia and, and how did they do that?
- They test us for claustrophobia and, and how did they do that?
- That the kind of claustrophobia of that.
- Biggest fear of phobia, Biggest phobia is claustrophobia, biggest fear.
- So take claustrophobia, remove it, move agoraphobia down.
- And, yeah, that's like the the opposite of claustrophobia, right?
- It's very useful for dealing with phobias like airplane phobias, claustrophobia.
- Things like claustrophobia, public speaking, that's going to vary from person to person.
Examples
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She was overcome by claustrophobia while stuck in the elevator for hours.
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The ramp ended in another narrow but level corridor, this one with a claustrophobia-inducing low ceiling.
Fiction book (2001) -
I can remember when claustrophobia used to be just a word.
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Her claustrophobia put her in a completely different class of fear than the rest of us.
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My father suffered from terrible claustrophobia.
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Well, let's hope none of our brothers suffer from claustrophobia.
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I don't have claustrophobia anymore.
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Perhaps the discomfort she'd felt had been claustrophobia, pure and simple, after all.
Fiction book (1990) -
On his first trip into the tunnels, he learned that he suffers from claustrophobia.
Academic text (2009) -
I felt the same agitated claustrophobia that used to accompany my walk from apartment to rehearsal.
Fiction book (2000)
Antonyms
How Afraid
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Claustrophobia comes from two old parts: claustro- meaning 'closed', like in 'closet' or 'close', and -phobia meaning 'fear'. So, claustrophobia is a strong fear of being in small, closed spaces.