night fear
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.86 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "[…] just as Rainer complained he never had a childhood — what luck! — never to have suffered birthpang, nightfear, cradlecap, cold lake in your lung; never to have practiced scales or sat numbly before the dentist's hum or picked your mother up from the floor she's bled and wept and puked on; […]"
- "At night, the sounds were different, no less pitiful. Screams from nightmare and nightfear."
- "All this time, O thanks to worldcasts on the gloopy TV and, more, lewdies' night-fear through lack of night-police, dead lay the street."
- "As the twenty-first century dawns, humanity is beginning to recover from its night-fear."
- "It has required much British resolution to overcome the night-fear of going out into the unhallowed ground of matter-of-fact, where the farthest earlier excursions of the governmental agencies had taken them no farther than such financial transactions as are incident to the accomplishment of anything whatever in a commercial nation."
- "A new form of fear within me—the real night-fear of the unknown, my honest doubt as to whether we would survive."