"nyctophilia" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1971, Americas (English Ed.), volume 23:",
          "text": "which disdains psychological analysis—\"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence\"; […]",
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        {
          "ref": "1972, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, Surat : Western India Publishing Company, page 6:",
          "text": "Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books, page 174",
          "text": "Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness. It's easy […] Use your voice to locate your partner, then move slowly toward the voice. […]"
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          "ref": "2020, Ethan Blake, Into the Hollow, first page of chapter 4",
          "text": "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 […]"
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        "Love of the night; attraction (sometimes sexual) to night or darkness."
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          "text": "which disdains psychological analysis—\"the obscurities that one encounters in Herman Melville or in Franz Kafka are not due to lack of resources for illumination, to artifices, or even to nyctophilia; they derive from the ultimate mystery of existence\"; […]",
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          "ref": "1972, Contemporary Gujarati Poetry, Surat : Western India Publishing Company, page 6:",
          "text": "Manilal Desai died at a very young age. His posthumous collection edited by his friends manifests modern lyricism, nyctophilia and death obsessions.",
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          "ref": "2014, Felicia Zopol, The Sex Instruction Manual: Essential Information and Techniques for Optimum Performance, Quirk Books, page 174",
          "text": "Getting Lost: Lovers engaged in nyctophilia can become disoriented in near-total darkness. It's easy […] Use your voice to locate your partner, then move slowly toward the voice. […]"
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