cabin fever

Noun

cabin fever (uncountable)

1. A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
   • Some residents of Alaska suffer from cabin fever when they remain indoors throughout the long, snowy winters.
   • Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever."1918, B. M. Bower, Cabin Fever, page 1
2. (obsolete) Typhus.
   • The certain consequence is the low typhus or cabin fever, which at all times, and at this present moment, exists in Ireland to a degree, that in any other country would create a serious alarm.1820, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 128, page 139