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nyctophilia
Jan. 31st, 2014 07:18 amnyctophilia (nik-toh-FIL-ee-uh) - n., a love or preference for the night or darkness.
Supposedly. There's a discussion on Wiktionary to mark it as a term that only appears in dictionaries, since searches have found only a single usage in the wild. A shame, as I like the sound a lot, and certainly it's a well-formed word, from the Greek roots nycto-, night + philia, love.
---L.
Supposedly. There's a discussion on Wiktionary to mark it as a term that only appears in dictionaries, since searches have found only a single usage in the wild. A shame, as I like the sound a lot, and certainly it's a well-formed word, from the Greek roots nycto-, night + philia, love.
---L.
