nyctophilia

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness. uncountable
    — which disdains psychological analysis—"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence"; […]

词源

Etymology tree
English nycto-
Ancient Greek φῐλῐ́ᾱ (phĭlĭ́ā)der.
English -philia
English nyctophilia
From nycto- (“night”) + -philia.
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