nyctophobia
nyctophobia noun: a fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
Noun
nyctophobia (uncountable)
- A fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
- "You're afraid of the dark. That's nyctophobia. And you're afraid of deep places, or depth. That's bathophobia."2004, Michael A. Gibbs, A Fairy of Anneliese Glade, →ISBN
- Synonyms:
- noctiphobia, scotophobia, night-fear, nightfright, noctophobia
nyctophobia meaning in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali
nyctophobia in Hindi
- fear of the night
- अन्धकार भय andhakār bhay
nyctophobia in Tamil
- இருள் அச்சம், நிசிமருட்சி
Synonyms of nyctophobia
Origin of nyctophobia
From nycto- + -phobia.
Words that rhyme with nyctophobia
- aerophobia
- gerontophobia
- homophobia
- hydrophobia
- -phobia
- agoraphobia
- bathophobia
- Francophobia
- phobia
- radiophobia
- uxorophobia
- xanthophobia
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- xenophobia
- ablutophobia
- acephobia
- acousticophobia
- acrophobia
- adverbophobia
- agraphobia
- aibohphobia
- aichmophobia
- algophobia
- altophobia
- amathophobia
- amaxophobia
- ambulophobia
- androphobia
- anthophobia
- aphobia
- apiphobia
- arachibutyrophobia
- arachnophobia
- astraphobia
- astrophobia
- aviatophobia
- aviophobia
- bacillophobia
- batrachophobia
- botanophobia
- brontophobia
- bryobia
- cacophobia
- cancerphobia
- carcinophobia
- claustrophobia
- clinophobia
- clithrophobia
- coulrophobia
- cynophobia
- decidophobia
- emetophobia
- epistolophobia
- erotophobia
- eurotophobia
- gephyrophobia
- graphophobia
- gymnophobia
- gynophobia
- heliophobia
- hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Questions about nyctophobia
- What does nyctophobia mean?
- Nyctophobia means a fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
- What is nyctophobia in Hindi?
- Nyctophobia in Hindi is अन्धकार भय (andhakār bhay). See Nyctophobia meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is nyctophobia?
- Nyctophobia is a noun.
Words near nyctophobia in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: nyctophobia (page history and authors); nyctophobia (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); nyctophobia (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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