NYCTOPHOBIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A morbid fear of night or darkness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("nyctophobia" is a kind of...):

simple phobia (any phobia (other than agoraphobia) associated with relatively simple well-defined stimuli)

Credits