night fear
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night fear
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From night + fear.
noun night fears · nightfear · night-fear
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The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
[…] 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; […]
Similar: nightfright, noctophobia, nyctophobia
- A fear or terror that one typically has at night. 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 anythin
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