"nyctophobe" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y., […]: Bantam Books, page 173",
          "text": "Across the hall, Tad Gillespie, a genuine nyctophobe with the nyctophobe's morbid fear of the dark, lay wide awake, eyes peeled, armed with a collection of quartz-halogen flash-lights whose total candlepower could have lighted the Washington Monument.",
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          "ref": "1992, T. J. Burr, Rocky Mountain Adventure Collection: The Adventures of a Colorado Mountaineer, Santa Barbara, C.A.: Fithian Press, page 188",
          "text": "Before returning to the surface, we shut off our lamps and experienced total darkness. A nyctophobe would have gone insane.",
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          "ref": "2009, J. C. Hutchins [pseudonym; Chris Hutchins], Personal Effects, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Griffin, page 14",
          "text": "The Brink has no sympathy for claustrophobes or nyctophobes, people who are afraid of the dark. People like me.",
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        {
          "ref": "2010, Bill Pronzini, The Hidden, New York, N.Y.: Walker & Company, page 35",
          "text": "She was a borderline nyctophobe; had insisted on sleeping with a night-light on the entire time they'd been married.",
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  "word": "nyctophobe"
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          "ref": "1989, David Michaelis, Boy, Girl, Boy, Girl, New York, N.Y., […]: Bantam Books, page 173",
          "text": "Across the hall, Tad Gillespie, a genuine nyctophobe with the nyctophobe's morbid fear of the dark, lay wide awake, eyes peeled, armed with a collection of quartz-halogen flash-lights whose total candlepower could have lighted the Washington Monument.",
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