nyctophobe
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
22
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane."
- "The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me."
- "She was a borderline nyctophobe; had insisted on sleeping with a night-light on the entire time they'd been married."