Physics:Stir crazy (condition)

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Stir crazy is an experience of anxiety about being trapped in a future of boredom; it is associated with prisoners and adolescents.[1] It is also called "chronophobia".[1] According to the Oxford English Dictionary the phrase dates back to 1908 and stems from the slang term "stir" for prison.[2]

See also

  • Cabin fever
  • Pamela M. Lee, art historian and author of Chronophobia, a book about art in the 1960s

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Adamec, Christine (2010). The Encyclopedia of Phobias, Fears, and Anxieties, Third Edition. Infobase Publishing. p. 135. ISBN 9781438120980. https://books.google.com/books?id=E2imSyZZDh0C. 
  2. ↑ "Stir, n.3" Oxford English Dictionary online, accessed June 30, 2007.

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