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nyctophobes

nyctophobes is the plural of nyctophobe.

Meaning of nyctophobe

Noun

nyctophobe (plural nyctophobes)

  1. 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.1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y.; […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page 173
    Antonyms:
    nyctophile

Questions about nyctophobes

What is nyctophobes the plural of?
Nyctophobes is the plural of nyctophobe.

Words near nyctophobes in the dictionary

  1. nyctophilia
  2. nyctophiliac
  3. nyctophiliacs
  4. nyctophilic
  5. nyctophobe
  6. nyctophobes
  7. nyctophobia
  8. nyctophobic
  9. nyctosaurid
  10. nyctosaurids
  11. nyctotropic

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