Citations:nyctophiliac

English citations of nyctophiliac

Adjective?

• 2003, George C. Schoolfield, A Baedeker of Decadence: Charting a Literary Fashion, page 259:

  The marquis prefers the darkness for his movements about the palace of the Princess Gaetani, he spends the daytime sleeping or drowsing; a parallel in Dracula's nyctophiliac routine comes to mind.

Noun

• 1994, Nicolas Slonimsky, Nicolas Slonimsky: The First Hundred Years, page 107:

  ... portraying with sensuous melodiousness and sentimental harmoniousness the pleasures of Paris, "cité de lumière, cité d'amour," amid lovable nyctophiliacs, amorous artists, grisettes, soubrettes and midinettes, alive with city noises and precisely notated cries of vegetable vendors, is produced at the Opera-Comique in Paris, destined to become the most popular French opera of the 1900's ...

• 2009, Ross Berger, Wise Owl: The Ancient Symbol of Wisdom, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc. (→ISBN), page 16 (mention):

  Incidentally, the technical term for a night owl — more specifically, a person who prefers a darker, nighttime environment — is either a nyctophiliac or scotophiliac.

• 2017, Wolfgang Edwards, The University of Corporeal and Ethereal Studies, BookBaby (→ISBN):

  The nyctophiliac who made love to the shadows ...

• (Can we date this quote?), Peculiar Mormyrid, Issue 6: The Nocturnal (Black & White Version), Lulu.com (→ISBN), page 99:

  Objects, places, street furniture all cease to respect their locations and relationships: now they loom, they roam; in obeyance, so do any other individuals I meet, uncertain now of their authenticity. A nyctophiliac, a nightologist, a nachtling, a darkster. A Pepper’s ghost hugging the lines painted on the street; somnambulist as funambulist. Intimate evaporation into the street’s sombre thinking. A suddenly leaky self: gloom engulfs my extremities, limbs undergo eclipses. I lose grip ...