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CLAUSTROPHOBIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does claustrophobia mean?
• CLAUSTROPHOBIA (noun)
The noun CLAUSTROPHOBIA has 1 sense:
1. a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
Familiarity information: CLAUSTROPHOBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("claustrophobia" is a kind of...):
simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)
Context examples
Agoraphobia is a fear of public places, and claustrophobia is a fear of closed-in places.
(Phobias, NIH: National Institute of Mental Health)
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