Meaning of night fear | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
   uncountable
2. A fear or terror that one typically has at night.
   countable, figuratively

Examples

“[…] just as Rainer complained he never had a childhood — what luck! — never to have suffered birthpang, nightfear, cradlecap, cold lake in your lung; never to have practiced scales or sat numbly before the dentist's hum or picked your mother up from the floor she's bled and wept and puked on; […]”

“At night, the sounds were different, no less pitiful. Screams from nightmare and nightfear.”

“All this time, O thanks to worldcasts on the gloopy TV and, more, lewdies' night-fear through lack of night-police, dead lay the street.”

“As the twenty-first century dawns, humanity is beginning to recover from its night-fear.”

“It has required much British resolution to overcome the night-fear of going out into the unhallowed ground of matter-of-fact, where the farthest earlier excursions of the governmental agencies had taken them no farther than such financial transactions as are incident to the accomplishment of anything whatever in a commercial nation.”

“A new form of fear within me—the real night-fear of the unknown, my honest doubt as to whether we would survive.”

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