Meaning of nyctophobe | Babel Free

Definitions

Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness.

Examples

“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.”

“Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane.”

“The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me.”

“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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