Definition of Night terror

1. Noun. An emotional episode (usually in young children) in which the person awakens in terror with feelings of anxiety and fear but is unable to remember any incident that might have provoked those feelings.

Generic synonyms: Drama, Dramatic Event

Definition of Night terror

1. Noun. (pathology) A sleeping disorder, where sleep is interrupted by anxiety, panic or screaming. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Night Terror

night people
night person
night porter
night raven
night rider
night school
night schools
night shift
night sight
night snake
night soil
night soil man
night soil men
night stick
night sweats
night terror
night terrors
night vision
night watch
night watches
night watchman
night watchman state
night watchmen
night wind
nightbird
nightbreak
nightcap
nightcaps
nightclothes
nightclub

Literary usage of Night terror

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Diseases of Children: A Work for the Practising Physician by Meinhard von Pfaundler, Arthur Schlossmann, Henry Larned Keith Shaw, Linnæus Edford La Fétra, Luther Emmett Holt (1912)
"Pavor nocturnus, or night terror, is a special form of nervous disturbance ... night terror occurs most frequently between the ages of three and six years, ..."

2. A Treatise on diseases peculiar to infants and children by William A. Edmonds (1881)
"night terror. • THE night terror, nightmare, somnambulism, bad dreams, sweet dreams, all dreams, doubtless depend upon a disturbed or imperfect state of ..."

3. Cyclopædia of the Diseases of Children: Medical and Surgical by John Marie Keating (1890)
"They, however, frequently recur several times a night, and continue for many weeks, whilst the night-terror of irritation usually happens only once, ..."

4. The Clinical Journal (1904)
"I do not believe that one ever forgets the essence ' of a night terror, ... An excellent example of this form of night terror is given by Charles Dickens. ..."

5. The Practice of Medicine by Horatio C. Wood, Reginald Heber Fitz (1897)
"We have seen one case in which the night-terror in an adult, repeated at intervals during every night, was not affected by innumerable treatments instituted ..."

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