nyctophilia
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From nycto- (“night”) + -philia.
Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɪliə
Noun
[edit]nyctophilia (uncountable)
- Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.
- 1971, Americas (English Ed.), volume 23:
- which disdains psychological analysis—"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence"; […]
- 1972, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, Surat : Western India Publishing Company, page 6:
- Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.
- 2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 174:
- Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness. It's easy […] Use your voice to locate your partner, then move slowly toward the voice. […]
- 2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4:
- It was late. The clock had just struck midnight and Thomas was distracting himself with another virtual reality horror game. Maybe it was a simple case of nyctophilia, but he found a certain level of comfort in scary games, especially the ones that involved Bigfoot. It was officially Halloween; and anything was better than thinking about that damned photograph […]