I need a term to describe the oxymoron feeling of a big expansive

>>8602446

Agoraphobia can be caused by an expansive space that creates anxiety and a feeling of danger within a person. Doesn't mean specifically claustrophobia, but does include the same type of phobic anxiety.

>>8602452
Agoraphobia means a fear of public spaces or people however, which isn't what I want.

Diffused?
I dunno man, smoke some weed.

>>8602458
"Agoraphobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by symptoms of anxiety in situations where the person perceives the environment to be unsafe with no easy way to get away. These situations can include open spaces"

>>8602446
I don't think there's a word for it. Maybe talk about the weight of the rock above the character, that's probably the source of the claustrophobic feeling.

>>8602477
That's a good idea, except I want to talk about the feeling in the abstract. The cave example was just that, an example.

>>8602446

contradictory things require more than a word to describe

>>8602480
Make up your own word, Nabokov. Agoraclaustrophobia; claustragoraphobia?

>>8602485
>>8602471
The problem here is that the word, even though it technically may not mean crowds, is so closely tied to that concept in people's minds it'll be hard to dislodge.

I also dislike using "Agoraclaustrophobia" since the first part, agora, means gathering place, meaning the word would mean a feeling of claustrophobia arising from gathering places, or crowds.

>>8602493
Then learn Ancient Greek, or look up a word that will serve your purpose.

Perhaps something like uranofobia will do? It means fear of the sky, but you can then describe sky as an infinite empty space and so on and so on.

>>8602493
To jump on the "coin your own word" thing, how about upanaclaustrophobia, or upoclaustrophobia? The English word "open" in reference to a wide, open space, comes from the proto-Germanic "upana", which comes from the PIE "upo".

>>8602523
>>8602520
For the time being I've settled for "kenonic claustrophobia", from the Greek “Kenón” which means either 'endless space' or 'empty space', or 'void'.

I originally thought about using kenonophobia, but that would just mean fear of the void, which wasn't what I wanted.

I'm still not 100% satisfied though, so I might go back and think about it some more later, or if anyone else comes up with a better idea I can use that.

Why not just describe it instead of using a long neologism?

taphophobia might work in that instance.

>>8602569
This is what I would do but I think the idea of using a coherent word of your own creation is cool too.

maybe something along the lines of "confined infinity?"

koilophobia, from koilos, the acient greek word for 'hollow'

>>8602635
>>8602446
or maybe something along the lines of "O God, I could be bounded in a nutshell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams"?

>>8602661
go to bed DFW

I wouldn't use a single word for it as it's a complex feeling. Better to go with the juxtaposed description, like for a sound you could say something like 'a fulminating, screeching silence'