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(rare, traditional Chinese medicine) Mild chills.
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(medicine, archaic) A kind of frenzy in which the patient is tormented by fantastic visions and lack of sleep.
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(pathology, US) The unexplained death of a baby usually while sleeping.
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A vivid, unpleasant mental image, having the characteristics of a nightmare, during wakefulness.
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The fear of falling asleep.
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A feeling of oppression during sleep, sleep paralysis; night terrors, a nightmare.
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(temporal location) During a nightmare.
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(temporal location) During a nightmare.
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(historical) lunacy supposed to be caused by sleeping in full moonlight
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Initialism of night eating syndrome. [An eating disorder characterized by persistent late-night binge eating.]
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An eating disorder characterized by persistent late-night binge eating.
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(countable, literally, figuratively) A fear or terror that one typically has at night.
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(archaic) sleep paralysis
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(pathology) A sleeping disorder, where sleep is interrupted by anxiety, panic or screaming.
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Alternative form of night fear [(uncountable) The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.]
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Alternative form of night fear [(uncountable) The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.]
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(uncountable) Fear of the night, nyctophobia, noctophobia
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(now chiefly historical) A feeling of extreme anxiety or suffocation experienced during sleep; Sleep paralysis.
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Resembling or characteristic of a nightmare; nightmarish.
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Beset by or resembling nightmares.
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(rare) having qualities of a nightmare
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Characterized by nightmares.
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Fear of night, or the dark; nyctophobia.
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(medicine) Unable to see clearly in low light; night-blind; suffering from nyctalopia.
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A person who has nyctalopia, night blindness.
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A person who loves night or darkness.
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(rare) A nyctophile, a person who loves the night or darkness.
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A fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.
adj
Afflicted with nyctophobia; fearful of the dark or of night.
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A violent or disturbed imagination during sleep, as in the case of nightmares and sleepwalking.
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A swelling, especially of the abdomen, due to muscular spasm, accumulation of flatus, etc., simulating an actual tumour in appearance, but disappearing upon the administration of an anaesthetic.
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(archaic, medicine) nightmare; sleep paralysis
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A psychosomatic illness in humans, associated with mass hysteria in parts of India, and involving the belief that a person bitten by a dog will later give birth to puppies.
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(pathology) A night terror.
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(very rare) One who suffers from somniphobia.
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(rare) Fear of falling asleep.
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(pathology, countable) A night terror.
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One who loves eclipses, often travelling to see them.
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The preeminence of penovaginal copulation over other forms of sexual expression.
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