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cabin fever

noun

Etymology

In the current sense coined or popularized in a novel of the same name in 1918. See cite below.

Definitions

  1. 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.
    • 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."
    • 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.

  2. Typhus.

    • 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.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA