Meaning of nyctophilia | Babel Free

Definitions

Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.

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Examples

“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"; […]”

“Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.”

“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. […]”

“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 […]”

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