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Nighttime vs Noctivagant - What's the difference?

nighttime | noctivagant |

As adjectives the difference between nighttime and noctivagant

is that nighttime is pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night while noctivagant is walking or wandering in the nighttime.

As a noun nighttime

is the hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.

nighttime

English

Alternative forms

* night-time

Noun

(en noun)
  • The hours of darkness between sunset and sunrise; the night.

    • Synonyms

    * night

    Antonyms

    * day * daytime

    Derived terms

    * night-times

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to nighttime; appropriate to the night.
  • Happening during the night.

    • Synonyms

    * (pertaining to nighttime ): night * (happening during the night ): night

    Antonyms

    * (pertaining to nighttime ): day, daytime

    noctivagant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Walking or wandering in the nighttime.
  • * 1823 , James Hogg, The Three Perils of Woman; Or, Love, Leasing and Jealousy: A Series of Domestic Scottish Tales , E. Duyckinck (1823), p. 145:
    • "'[…] I therefore think, Sarah, that the incommensurability of the crime with the effect, completely warrants the supersaliency of this noctivagant delinquent.'"
  • * 1967 , Walter Hamilton, Parodies of the Works of English & American Authors , Johnson Reprint Corporation (1967), p. 195:
    • "Over the city, the suburb, the slum / He rambled from pillar to post, / And backward and forward, observant, though dumb, / As a fleetly noctivagant ghost."
  • *1982 , (TC Boyle), Water Music , Penguin 2006, p. 363:
  • *:Unhappily, we lost the big fellow, Smirke, to noctivagant predators some days back [...].
  • * 2003 , Alan Wall, The School of Night , St. Martin's Press (2003), p. 223–224:
    • "Not merely nocturnal but noctivagant , a nightwalker, a prowler, a nomad of the midnight streets, attempting to abolish the distinction between the light that comes from outside and the sort that shines within."

    Quotations

    * (English Citations of "noctivagant")

    References

    * " noctivagant" in A Complete Dictionary of the English Language, Both with Regard to Sound and Meaning , Thomas Sheridan, 1790.