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nyctophobe

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English

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Etymology

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From nycto- (night) +‎ -phobe.

Noun

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nyctophobe (plural nyctophobes)

  1. Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness.
    Antonym: nyctophile
    • 1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y.,  []: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173:
      Across the hall, Tad Gillespie, a genuine nyctophobe with the nyctophobe's morbid fear of the dark, lay wide awake, eyes peeled, armed with a collection of quartz-halogen flash-lights whose total candlepower could have lighted the Washington Monument.
    • 1992, T. J. Burr, Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection: The Adventures of a Colorado Mountaineer, Santa Barbara, C.A.: Fithian Press, →ISBN, page 188:
      Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane.
    • 2009, J. C. Hutchins [pseudonym; Chris Hutchins], Personal Effects, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN, page 14:
      The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me.
    • 2010, Bill Pronzini, The Hidden, New York, N.Y.: Walker & Company, →ISBN, page 35:
      She was a borderline nyctophobe; had insisted on sleeping with a night-light on the entire time they'd been married.
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