Usually means: Restlessness from prolonged indoor confinement.
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  1. cabin fever: Merriam-Webster
  2. cabin fever: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cabin fever: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cabin fever: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cabin fever: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. cabin fever: Wiktionary
  7. cabin fever: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. cabin fever: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. cabin fever: Dictionary.com
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  11. cabin fever: TheFreeDictionary.com
  12. cabin fever: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cabin fever: Medical dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cabin fever: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cabin fever)

▸ noun:  (psychology) A condition of restlessness and irritability caused by being in a confined space.
▸ noun:  (obsolete) Typhus.

Similar:
camp fever, carsickness, combat fatigue, prison fever, brain-fever, includence, tight building syndrome, barrel fever, ship-fever, falling out, more...

Opposite:
wanderlust, adventurousness, exploration, itchy feet

Adjectives:
leprous, lazar, mesel, leperous, mysell, leprose, measly, lepromatous, measled, luetic, hectic

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Similar:
camp fever, carsickness, combat fatigue, prison fever, brain-fever, includence, tight building syndrome, barrel fever, ship-fever, falling out, more...

Opposite:
wanderlust, adventurousness, exploration, itchy feet

Adjectives:
leprous, lazar, mesel, leperous, mysell, leprose, measly, lepromatous, measled, luetic, hectic



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