Noun: claustrophobe
| Singular | claustrophobe |
| Plural | claustrophobes |
Sample Sentences
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She has never considered herself either a claustrophobe or an agoraphobe but, well, this was different. This was both fears together – the fear of wide-open spaces jammed shoulder to shoulder with angry people. [1998, Jim Mortimore, chapter 3, in Beltempest, page 73:]
Nouns inflected like claustrophobe
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Latin claustrum (“a shut-in place”), from claudō (“to shut, close; to imprison, confine”) + -phobe. See: Latin Nouns '
claustrum'.