nyctohylophobia

nyctohylophobia

English

Etymology

From nycto- +‎ hylo- +‎ -phobia.

Noun

nyctohylophobia (uncountable)

1. The fear of dark forests or wooded areas.
   • 2002, Country Life, Volume 196, page 88:

     Such was the great man's nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded places and forests) he divided his garden into a very formal area where he felt safer and rougher woodland of which he was fearful.

   • 2008, Bill Wonders, Orion Too, AuthorHouse (2008), →ISBN, page 131:

     I didn't suffer from nyctohylophobia but if I did this would have been the time and place where I would have been reduced to a screaming pile of shot nerves on the forest floor.

   • 2013, Peter Young, Oak, Reaktion Books (2013), →ISBN, page 118:

     Related to dendrophobia but less well known are hylophobia (fear of forests), nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night) and xylophobia (fear of wooden objects).

Hypernyms

• hylophobia