What does nyctophobe mean?
Nyctophobe means Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness..
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.
Use nyctophobe when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Nyctophobe means Someone who is afraid of the night or darkness..
The closest synonym depends on the sentence and intended sense.
Possible antonyms include nyctophile.
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.
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