nightfright

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Fear of the night, nyctophobia, noctophobia uncountable
    — Though we have had stage windows before, and by the thousands, I don't think I have ever seen this particular use made of them: the sense of air, of nightfright beyond the walls, of extended dimension is so palpable that you believe in the continuing world past the leaded-glass door, half-imagine that you can remember the street-address tacked over it.
  2. A terror or fright typically occurring at night. countable
    — In the warm light she looked like a little girl who has suffered a night-fright.

词形变化

nightfrights plural night fright alternative night-fright alternative

词源

From night + fright.
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