Usually means: Fear of darkness or night.
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  1. lygophobia: Wiktionary
  2. lygophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  3. lygophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words

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Definitions from Wiktionary (lygophobia)

▸ noun:  (rare) Fear of darkness.

Similar:
phengophobia, photophobia, gelotophobia, eosophobia, geliophobia, lyssophobia, selaphobia, photophonophobia, xanthophobia, somniphobia, more...

Opposite:
photophobia, fear of light

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Similar:
phengophobia, photophobia, gelotophobia, eosophobia, geliophobia, lyssophobia, selaphobia, photophonophobia, xanthophobia, somniphobia, more...

Opposite:
photophobia, fear of light



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