scotophobia

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

Translations

fear of darkness

Finnish: pimeänpelko, skotofobia (fi), nyktofobia

German: Skotophobie (de) f