noctivagation

English

Noun

noctivagation (countable and uncountable, plural noctivagations)

1. A roving or going about in the night.
   • 1654, Edmund Gayton, Pleasant Notes upon Don Quixote:

     Could he not remember what befel him on the first entrance of his adventures, when this vertigo of noctivagation and watching his arms seized him?

   • 1988, William Brinkley, The Last Ship:

     It is this really that turns me to these noctivagations.

Related terms

• noctivagate
• nocturnal
• vagation