CLAUSTROPHOBIA

PRONUNCIATION: (klo-struh-FO-bee-uh)

MEANING: noun: A fear of being in a confined place or a restrictive situation.

ETYMOLOGY: From Latin claustrum (lock, bolt, confined place) + -phobia (fear). Earliest documented use: 1879. The opposite is agoraphobia.
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CLASSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the best of one's kind

CLUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being part of a bunch

CLAUSTROPHOBIA - fear of being the World's Best Santa