nyctophilia

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.
 * 2) * 2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books (ISBN 9781594747724), page 174:
 * Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness. It&#39;s easy Use your voice to locate your partner, then move slowly toward the voice.
 * 1) * 2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4:
 * It was late. The clock had just struck midnight and Thomas was distracting himself with another virtual reality horror game. Maybe it was a simple case of nyctophilia, but he found a certain level of comfort in scary games, especially the ones that involved Bigfoot. It was officially Halloween; and anything was better than thinking about that damned photograph
 * 1) * 2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4:
 * It was late. The clock had just struck midnight and Thomas was distracting himself with another virtual reality horror game. Maybe it was a simple case of nyctophilia, but he found a certain level of comfort in scary games, especially the ones that involved Bigfoot. It was officially Halloween; and anything was better than thinking about that damned photograph