cabin fever
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]In the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite below.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]- (psychology) A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
- Some residents of Alaska suffer from cabin fever when they remain indoors throughout the long, snowy winters.
- 1918, B. M. Bower, Cabin Fever, page 1:
- Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever."
- 2004, Lois Olson, Meeting Him in the Wilderness: A True Story of Adventure and Faith, iUniverse, →ISBN, page 102:
- The novelty of a wilderness winter wore off. I began to suffer from cabin fever. I was so anxious to see someone that whenever I heard a car or truck motor, I jumped up on a chair to look out.
- (obsolete) Typhus.
- 1820, The Gentleman's Magazine, volume 128, page 139:
- The certain consequence is the low typhus or cabin fever, which at all times, and at this present moment, exists in Ireland to a degree, that in any other country would create a serious alarm.
Derived terms
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[edit]Translations
[edit]psychological condition
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See also
[edit]Further reading
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cabin fever on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
