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.

Synonyms

• nyctophobia

Related terms

• scotophobe
• scotophobic

 

Translations

fear of darkness

• Finnish: pimeänpelko (fi), skotofobia (fi), nyktofobia (fi)
• German: Skotophobie (de) f