0 the feeling of being angry and bored because you have been inside for too long:
1 a condition in which a person feels unhappy or bored because of spending too much time in the house, esp. in winter
Jack starts to develop cabin fever, and the sinister ghosts of the hotel gradually begin to overtake him, making him increasingly unstable.
Everyone starts to get on each other's nerves out of hunger, frustration and cabin fever and begin to act out in different ways.
A person may experience cabin fever in a situation such as being in a simple country vacation cottage.
Cabin fever describes the extreme irritability and restlessness a person may feel in these situations.
In a mix of cabin fever and boredom, he took his chances venturing into outer space.
By the 9th day his cabin fever has progressed to the extreme.
As he recovered, cabin fever supplanted the flu, and his relentless creative drive took over.