Meanings
- uncountableThe fear of dark forests or wooded areas.
I didn't suffer from nyctohylophobia but if I did this would have been the time and place where I would have been reduced to a screaming pile of shot nerves on the forest floor.
2008, Bill Wonders, Orion Too, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 1312 more examples
Such was the great man's nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded places and forests) he divided his garden into a very formal area where he felt safer and rougher woodland of which he was fearful.
2002, Country Life, volume 196, page 88Related to dendrophobia but less well known are hylophobia (fear of forests), nyctohylophobia (fear of dark wooded areas or forests at night) and xylophobia (fear of wooden objects).
2013, Peter Young, Oak, Reaktion Books, →ISBN, page 118
Origin
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nyctohylophobia. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nyctohylophobia
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