"night fear" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1983, Bradford Morrow, Conjunctions:",
          "text": "[…] just as Rainer complained he never had a childhood — what luck! — never to have suffered birthpang, nightfear, cradlecap, cold lake in your lung; never to have practiced scales or sat numbly before the dentist's hum or picked your mother up from the floor she's bled and wept and puked on; […]",
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          "text": "At night, the sounds were different, no less pitiful. Screams from nightmare and nightfear.",
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          "ref": "2012 [1962], Anthony Burgess, edited by Andrew Biswell, A Clockwork Orange, New York: W. W. Norton, →ISBN, page 66:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "2013, Greogory L. Matloff, Deep-Space Probes, page 25:",
          "text": "As the twenty-first century dawns, humanity is beginning to recover from its night-fear.",
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        "The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness."
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        "(uncountable) The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness."
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          "ref": "1917, Thorstein Veblen, An Inquiry Into the Nature of Peace and the Terms of Its Perpetuation, page 251:",
          "text": "It has required much British resolution to overcome the night-fear of going out into the unhallowed ground of matter-of-fact, where the farthest earlier excursions of the governmental agencies had taken them no farther than such financial transactions as are incident to the accomplishment of anything whatever in a commercial nation.",
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          "ref": "2014, Barry Blanchard, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains:",
          "text": "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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        "(countable, literal, figurative) A fear or terror that one typically has at night."
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        "(uncountable) The fear of the night, nighttime, or darkness."
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