claustrophobia
Syllables: claus·tro·pho·bi·aUK/ˌklɒs.trəˈfəʊ.bi.ə//ˌklɔː.strəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
claustrophobia noun: the abnormal fear of closed, tight places.
Noun
claustrophobia (usually uncountable, plural claustrophobias)
- The abnormal fear of closed, tight places.
- She complained of emaciation, nervousness, tenderness of the scalp, weakness of the back, claustrophobia, and other morbid fears.1902 JANUARY, WM. BALDWIN KEYES, D.D.S., “Pyorrhea Alveolaris With Special Reference To Practical Medicine.”, in The Dental Cosmos, volume XLIV, number 1, page 4
- The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.2007 June 16, Ben Brantley, “An Artist’s Look Back at Her Life, Now Ended”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 07 Jan 2020
claustrophobia meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Kannada and Persian
claustrophobia in Tamil
- மூடிய இடம் பற்றிய பீதி, கட்டிடத்தில் தனிமை அச்சம், தனிமை மருட்சி, மூட்ட மருட்சி
claustrophobia in Bengali
- বদ্ধস্থানভীতি
claustrophobia in Kannada
- ಇಕ್ಕಟ್ಟಿನ ಸ್ಥಳದ ಭೀತಿ
claustrophobia in Persian
- fear of closed, tight places
- تنگناهراسی
Examples of claustrophobia in a sentence
- As well as claustrophobia, I also suffer from a condition that I can't even pronounce: Didaskaleinophobia.
- Though not noticeably a sufferer from claustrophobia, he certainly experienced agoraphilia.
- Claustrophobias and fears of suffocation are often specially directed against fantasies of being in the mother's womb.
Antonyms of claustrophobia
Forms of claustrophobia
| plural | claustrophobias |
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Origin of claustrophobia
From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from Latin claudō (“to shut, close; to imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal.
Words formed from claustrophobia
Words that rhyme with claustrophobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
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- xenophobia
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
- hippophobia
Questions about claustrophobia
- What does claustrophobia mean?
- Claustrophobia means the abnormal fear of closed, tight places.
- What is claustrophobia in Tamil?
- Claustrophobia in Tamil is மூடிய இடம் பற்றிய பீதி, கட்டிடத்தில் தனிமை அச்சம், தனிமை மருட்சி. See Claustrophobia meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is claustrophobia?
- Claustrophobia is a noun.
- How do you pronounce claustrophobia?
- Claustrophobia is pronounced /ˌklɒs.trəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of claustrophobia?
- The plural of claustrophobia is claustrophobias.
Words near claustrophobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: claustrophobia (page history and authors); claustrophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); claustrophobia (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); claustrophobia (Kannada 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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