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claustrophilia

claustrophilia noun: the love of, or arousal from, enclosed, tight places.

Noun

claustrophilia (uncountable)

  1. The love of, or arousal from, enclosed, tight places.

claustrophilia meaning in Tamil

claustrophilia in Tamil

அறையில் தனிமை விருப்பம், மூடிய அறையில் வாழ விருப்பம்

Origin of claustrophilia

Based on the Latin claustrum (“a shut in place”), from claudere (“to close”) + -philia ("love").

Words formed from claustrophilia

Words that rhyme with claustrophilia

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Questions about claustrophilia

What does claustrophilia mean?
Claustrophilia means the love of, or arousal from, enclosed, tight places.
What is claustrophilia in Tamil?
Claustrophilia in Tamil is அறையில் தனிமை விருப்பம், மூடிய அறையில் வாழ விருப்பம். See Claustrophilia meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is claustrophilia?
Claustrophilia is a noun.

Words near claustrophilia in the dictionary

  1. claustration
  2. claustrations
  3. claustrofobia
  4. claustrophile
  5. claustrophiles
  6. claustrophilia
  7. claustrophiliac
  8. claustrophiliacs
  9. claustrophilic
  10. claustrophobe
  11. claustrophobes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: claustrophilia (page history and authors); claustrophilia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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