scotophobia

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See also: Scotophobia

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scoto- +‎ -phobia

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scotophobia (uncountable)

  1. Fear of darkness.
    • 2008, E a Bucchianeri, Faust: My Soul Be Damned for the World, volume 2, page 55:
      He also suffered from hypsophobia, a certain fear of elevated places, and the typical scotophobia and phasmophobia associated with churches, graveyards and solitary places in the dark of night.

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