scotophobia

See also: Scotophobia

English

Etymology

scoto- +‎ -phobia

Noun

scotophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of darkness.
    • 2008, E a Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World (volume 2, page 55)
      He also suffered from hypsophobia, a certain fear of elevated places, and the typical scotophobia and phasmophobia associated with churches, graveyards and solitary places in the dark of night.

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