English

Noun

claustration

1. Shutting up or enclosing, usually referring to a religious cloister.
2. A method used by emperors to keep their harems and to guarantee their virginity.

Quotations

shutting up

• 1875, Henry James, Roderick Hudson, New York Edition 1909, hardcover, page 341

  He could scare find it in his heart to accuse Roderick of neglect of that function, united to him though the girl might be by a double bond; for it was natural that the inspirations of a man of genius should be both capricious and imperious, and on what plan had he ever started moreover but on that of diligence and claustration?

French

Etymology

From claustrer +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klos.tʁa.sjɔ̃/
• Rhymes: -jɔ̃
• Homophone: claustrations

Noun

claustration f ‎(plural claustrations)

1. confinement
2. (psychology) withdrawal