night fear

noun

Etymology

From night + fear.

  1. inherited from fǣran
  2. inherited from feren
  3. derived from *per-
  4. inherited from *fērō
  5. inherited from fǣr
  6. inherited from feer
  7. formed as night fear — “night + fear

Definitions

  1. The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness.

    • At night, the sounds were different, no less pitiful. Screams from nightmare and nightfear.
    • All this time, O thanks to worldcasts on the gloopy TV and, more, lewdies' night-fear through lack of night-police, dead lay the street.
  2. A fear or terror that one typically has at night.

    • A new form of fear within me—the real night-fear of the unknown, my honest doubt as to whether we would survive.

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