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Nyctophobia

Definition: Nyctophobia

Nyctophobia

Noun

1. A morbid fear of night or darkness.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

Specialty Definitions: Nyctophobia

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	Excessive dread of the darkness and silence of night, or of being in the dark. Source: European Union. (references)
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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Nyctophobia

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
nyctophobia	11
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: Nyctophobia

Language		Translations for "nyctophobia"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		nyktofobi, skotophobi (scotophobia), moerkeraedsel (scotophobia). (various references)

Dutch		nyctophobia (scotophobia), nyctofobie (scotophobia), scotophobia (scotophobia), scotofobie (scotophobia). (various references)

French		nyctophobie, scotophobie. (various references)

German		Nyktophobie, Skotophobie (scotophobia), Dunkelangst. (various references)

Italian		nictofobia, scotofobia (scotophobia). (various references)

Manx		oie-aggle. (various references)

Pig Latin		yctophobianay

Portuguese		nictofobia (scotophobia). (various references)

Spanish		nictofobia. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: Nyctophobia

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-h-i-n-o-o-p-t-y"
	-2 letters: hypotonia, hypotonic.
	-3 letters: hypnotic, hyponoia, oophytic, photonic, phytonic, pythonic, typhonic.
	-4 letters: aphonic, aphotic, botanic, caption, ciphony, cohabit, opacity, paction, tachyon, typhoon.
	-5 letters: action, atonic, atopic, atypic, bitchy, bonaci, bonita, bonito, botany, botchy, bypath, cahoot, canopy, canthi, cation, catnip, chanty, chiton, chopin, haptic, hatpin, hypnic, obtain, octopi, option, painch, painty, patchy, phatic, phobia, phobic, phonic.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-c-h-i-n-o-o-p-t-y"
	+5 letters: thrombocytopenia.
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Alternative Orthography: Nyctophobia

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

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Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

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