claustrophobia

Word family

Related topics: Psychology, psychiatry

claus·tro·pho·bi·a /ˌklɔːstrəˈfəʊbiə $ ˌklɒːstrəˈfoʊ-/ noun [uncountableU]

MPFRIGHTENEDa strong fear of being in a small enclosed space or in a situation that limits what you can do 幽闭恐惧症 → agoraphobia

—claustrophobic adjectiveadj

I get claustrophobic in elevators.

我在电梯里就会感到幽闭恐怖。

a claustrophobic atmosphere

幽闭恐怖的气氛

Examples from the Corpus

claustrophobia• Although she definitely did suffer from claustrophobia, Sylvia was by no means the worst case I have seen.• She had never suffered from claustrophobia, but right now she could imagine just how its victims felt.• I was getting claustrophobia at my office at home.• It was agoraphobia but felt like claustrophobia.• What flies seeks the shadows of earth, what is earth-bound, air bursting: oases about to melt, claustrophobia gasping.• I have to fight against a feeling of claustrophobia here.• To be here, to have this happening, the claustrophobia of their fatuous intrigues?• The claustrophobia expresses their sense of the children being too close.

Origin claustrophobia