Usually means: Fear of darkness or night.
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We found 28 dictionaries that define the word nyctophobia:

General (17 matching dictionaries)
  1. nyctophobia: Merriam-Webster
  2. nyctophobia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. nyctophobia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. nyctophobia: Collins English Dictionary
  5. nyctophobia: Vocabulary.com
  6. nyctophobia: Wiktionary
  7. nyctophobia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. nyctophobia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. nyctophobia: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. nyctophobia: Dictionary.com
  11. Nyctophobia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. nyctophobia: Rhymezone
  13. nyctophobia: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  14. nyctophobia: FreeDictionary.org
  15. nyctophobia: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  16. nyctophobia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. nyctophobia: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nyctophobia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. nyctophobia: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Nyctophobia: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  6. nyctophobia: Medical dictionary
  7. Nyctophobia: Drug Medical Dictionary
  8. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nyctophobia: The Phobia List

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Nyctophobia: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (nyctophobia)

noun:  A fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.

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