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An abnormal desire for confinement in an enclosed space.

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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.
  • 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.
  • With little doors you can close if you want to be really snug (there's a thin line between claustrophilia and claustrophobia, though).
  • 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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