Nyctophile

Quick meaning: Nyctophile is a noun meaning Someone who loves the night or darkness.

Meaning

Someone who loves the night or darkness.

More Meanings

1. (zoology, archaic) Any of the Australian bats of the genus Nyctophilus.

Example Sentences

He reads—he writes—late into the night. It's his way. He's a night person. A 'nyctophile' he calls himself.

Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090, but there are a plethora of partial eclipses in the meantime to keep nyctophiles content.

Altogether, these four varieties of nyctophiles chewed great hunks out of my sleeping time, and accounted for many of my less charitable thoughts, during the hours that the "general populace" was enjoying restful "shut-eye"'.

Case 25. The Nycteres of Africa, and the Petalias of Java; the Nyctophiles of Australia; the Barbastelles and long-eared bats of Europe; and the true bat and Scotophiles, which are scattered over different parts of the world, and the Lasiures of America.

Word Forms

• nyctophiles

Synonyms for nyctophile

Depending on context, synonyms include nyctophiliac.

Antonyms for nyctophile

Common opposites include nyctophobe.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include nyctophiliac, nyctophobe, lygophilia, nyctohylophobia, somnophiliac, scotophobe.

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