claustrophilia
Definitions
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- noun The love of enclosed, tight places.
Examples
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But, I also keep coming back because it's one of the only places on the web you can find the word "claustrophilia" used in a coherent sentence.
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For me, there is a strong connection, between this kind of claustrophilia, a love of curiousity cabinets and the concept of horror vacui as applied to Victorian design.
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That you would group these people along with the Austrians as part of the “free market crowd” only exposes your suffocating intellectual claustrophilia.
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With little doors you can close if you want to be really snug (there's a thin line between claustrophilia and claustrophobia, though).
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Sources said the MI6 agent was a fan of claustrophilia - in which people get sexual pleasure from confined spaces.
Note
The word 'claustrophilia' comes from the Latin word 'claustrum' ("a shut in place") + '-philia'.
