This week’s theme
There’s a word for it

This week’s words
nemophilist
spindrift
mononymous
noctivagant
betweenity

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(nok-TIV-uh-guhnt)

MEANING:

noun: One who wanders in the night.
adjective: Wandering in the night.

ETYMOLOGY:

From Latin nox (night) + vagus (wandering). Earliest documented use: 1614.

USAGE:

“And while some sleepwalkers simply rearrange the furniture in modest ways, my mother’s two noctivagant journeys that year were decidedly more extreme.”
Chris Bohjalian; The Premonition; Doubleday; 2016.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: