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- noun The
love ofenclosed ,tight places.
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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.
Snug as a Bug in a Beautiful Box Heather McDougal 2007
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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.
Snug as a Bug in a Beautiful Box Heather McDougal 2007
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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).
Snug as a Bug in a Beautiful Box Heather McDougal 2007
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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).
Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007
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Sources said the MI6 agent was a fan of claustrophilia - in which people get sexual pleasure from confined spaces.
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An examination of his two laptops showed Williams visited websites on claustrophilia.
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An examination of his two laptops showed Williams visited websites on claustrophilia.
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Sources said the MI6 agent was a fan of claustrophilia - in which people get sexual pleasure from confined spaces.
qms commented on the word claustrophilia
The Donald thinks walls give protection
From human or import infection.
But what could be sillier
Than this claustrophilia
And love of such rigid erection?
April 6, 2018