Claustrophobia

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  • noun. An abnormal fear of being in narrow or enclosed spaces.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. In pathology, a morbid dread of confined places, to which hysterical and neurasthenic persons are sometimes subject. See agoraphobia.
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  • noun. The fear of closed, tight places.
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  • noun. a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
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    "Interestingly enough, I barely touched the science fiction -- I picked up a Jack Vance novel, audiobook versions of David Brin's Sundiver and Frederik Pohl's The Voices Of Heaven, and something else, but I leaned much more towards the thriller end of the spectrum -- the Deighton books, obviously, but also a couple of Adam Hall's Quiller novels (these are re-reads, mind you), Michael DiMercurio's Threat Vector and Patrick Robinson's Kilo Class (I have quite a fondness for submarine stories, which I find quite amusing given that my claustrophobia is severe enough that I can't stand being in one for even five seconds; I went aboard a WWII sub in San Francisco and clocked an end to end speed that might have been a world record -- people swore I went up the exit ladder without actually touching the rungs) and so forth."
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