nyctophilia
nyctophilia noun: love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.
Noun
nyctophilia (uncountable)
- Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.
- 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"; […]1971, Americas (English Ed.), volume 23
- Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.1972, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, Surat : Western India Publishing Company, page 6
- Synonyms:
- amaurophilia
nyctophilia meaning in Tamil and Bengali
nyctophilia in Tamil
- இரவு விருப்பம், இருட்டை விரும்புதல், இருட்டுத்தெரிந்தெடுப்பு, இரவுவிருப்பு, இருட்டுவிருப்பு
nyctophilia in Bengali
- রাতের প্রতি ভালোবাসা, রাত, অন্ধকারের প্রতি আকর্ষণ
Examples of nyctophilia in a sentence
- Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness.2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books, →ISBN, page 174:
- 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.2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4
Synonyms of nyctophilia
Origin of nyctophilia
From nycto- (“night”) + -philia.
Words that rhyme with nyctophilia
- aquaphilia
- bibliophilia
- biophilia
- microphilia
- necrophilia
- philia
- -philia
- ephebophilia
- geophilia
- gerontophilia
- pedophilia
- trichophilia
36 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- vorarephilia
- xenophilia
- zoophilia
- androphilia
- aptophilia
- asphyxiophilia
- autoandrogynemorphophilia
- autoandrophilia
- autogynandromorphophilia
- autogynephilia
- autonepiophilia
- cilia
- claustrophilia
- coprophilia
- discophilia
- eproctophilia
- glossophilia
- haemophilia
- inflatophilia
- Japanophilia
- juvenilia
- Kabylia
- klismaphilia
- Laconophilia
- limnophilia
- lithophilia
- logophilia
- lygophilia
- macrophilia
- milia
- opacarophilia
- plushophilia
- scopophilia
- sillier
- teratophilia
- urophilia
Questions about nyctophilia
- What does nyctophilia mean?
- Nyctophilia means love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.
- What is nyctophilia in Tamil?
- Nyctophilia in Tamil is இரவு விருப்பம், இருட்டை விரும்புதல், இருட்டுத்தெரிந்தெடுப்பு. See Nyctophilia meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use nyctophilia in a sentence?
- Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness.
- What part of speech is nyctophilia?
- Nyctophilia is a noun.
Words near nyctophilia in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: nyctophilia (page history and authors); nyctophilia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nyctophilia (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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