claustrophobia

English

Etymology

From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“I shut, close; I imprison, confine”) + -phobia. First attested in the British Medical Journal.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌklɑː.strəˈfoʊ.bi.ə/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌklɒs.trəˈfəʊ.bi.ə/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -əʊbiə

Noun

claustrophobia (usually uncountable, plural claustrophobias)

1. The fear of closed, tight places.
   • 2007 June 16, Ben Brantley, “An Artist’s Look Back at Her Life, Now Ended”, in The New York Times‎^[1]:

     The first scenes, which take place in a minitheater that keeps shrinking, will be painful for anyone with even a tinge of claustrophobia.

Derived terms

• claustrophobic
• claustrophobe

Translations

fear of closed, tight places

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: klaustrofobiya
• Belarusian: клаўстрафобія f (klaŭstrafóbija)
• Breton: klostrofobiezh m
• Catalan: claustrofòbia (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 幽閉恐懼症 / 幽闭恐惧症 (zh) (yōubì kǒngjùzhèng)

• Czech: klaustrofobie (cs) f
• Danish: klaustrofobi
• Dutch: claustrofobie (nl), engtevrees (nl) f
• Esperanto: klaŭstrofobio, klostrofobio
• Estonian: klaustrofoobia (et)
• Finnish: klaustrofobia (fi), ahtaanpaikankammo (fi)
• French: claustrophobie (fr) f
• Galician: claustrofobia f
• Georgian: კლაუსტროფობია (ka) (ḳlausṭropobia)
• German: Platzangst (de) f, Klaustrophobie (de) f, Raumangst (de) f
• Greek: κλειστοφοβία (el) f (kleistofovía)
• Hebrew: קלאוסטרופוביה (he)
• Hungarian: klausztrofóbia (hu)
• Irish: clástrafóibe (ga) f, uamhan clóis m
• Italian: claustrofobia (it) f
• Japanese: 閉所恐怖症 (ja) (へいしょきょうふしょう, heisho kyōfushō)
• Kazakh: жабық бөлмеден қорқу (jabyq bölmeden qorqu)
• Korean: 폐소공포증 (pyesogongpojeung), 폐쇄공포증 (pyeswaegongpojeung), 폐실공포증 (pyesilgongpojeung), 밀실공포증 (milsilgongpojeung)
• Macedonian: клаустрофо́бија f (klaustrofóbija)
• Manx: feoh chionney
• Maori: mae apiapi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: давчуу орчноос айх (davčuu orčnoos ajx), давчуу орчноос эмээх (davčuu orčnoos emeex)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: klaustrofobi (no) m

  Nynorsk: klaustrofobi m

• Persian: تنگناهراسی (fa)
• Polish: klaustrofobia (pl) f
• Portuguese: claustrofobia (pt) f
• Romanian: claustrofobie (ro) f
• Russian: клаустрофо́бия (ru) f (klaustrofóbija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: клаустрофобија f

  Roman: klaustrofobija (sh) f

• Spanish: claustrofobia (es) f
• Swedish: klaustrofobi (sv) c, cellskräck (sv) c
• Turkish: klostrofobi (tr)
• Ukrainian: please add this translation if you can