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 fliesseeks the shadows of earth, what is earth-bound, air bursting: oases about to melt, claustrophobiagasping.• I have to fight against a feeling of claustrophobia here.• To be here, to have this happening, the claustrophobia of their fatuousintrigues?• The claustrophobiaexpresses their sense of the children being too close.
Originclaustrophobia
(1800-1900)Modern LatinLatinclaustrum“bar keeping a door closed” ( → CLOISTER) + Modern Latinphobia“fear”