claustrophobia
Claustrophobia is an irrational or abnormal fear of being in an enclosed space. If your heart races in an elevator, or you break out in a cold sweat in a walk-in closet, you might have claustrophobia.
Claustrophobia is made of ancient Latin words. Phobia means "fear," and claustro means "bolt" — the kind you put on a door. Broadly speaking, the opposite of claustrophobia is agoraphobia, which is the fear of open spaces. For fun, try adding "-phobia" to your own personal source of dread! For example, “math-phobia.”
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a morbid fear of being closed in a confined spacetype of:simple phobiaany phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli
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Vocabulary lists containing claustrophobia
Words derived from more than one language are called "hybrid words." Many hybrid words in English have a combination of Latin and Greek roots, but you'll also find other interesting combinations in the list below.
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Open your mind and practice this list of words derived from the Latin roots clud and clus, meaning "shut, enclose, or confine."