nyctophilia

== English == === Etymology === From nycto- (“night”) +‎ -philia. === Pronunciation === Rhymes: -ɪliə === Noun === nyctophilia (uncountable) Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness. Synonym: amaurophilia 2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4: 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 […]