nyctophilia

嗜夜癖

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness.

    不可数

    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 […]

词源

From nycto- (“night”) + -philia.

来源：wiktionary