Friday words: The "-philes"

[med_cat]

(from the ASAP Science FB page, which got it [giographixnola.tumblr.com])

Nyctophile: a person who loves night, darkness
Selenophile: a person who loves the moon
Pluviophile: a person who loves/takes comfort from rain
Ceraunophile: a person who loves lightning and thunder

Comments

[fieryphoenix.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'm all four of these. Like, you know those nights where you have on-and-off showers, and you can see the sky open to the moon, but you can also see lightning race through billowy clouds in the distance? I love those.

[med_cat]

Pleased the words are to your liking and yes, it's a thrilling sight, isn't it?

[trellia-chan.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous words. :-D I'm all of them except the last one. No lightning for me, thanks. O_O

[med_cat]

Understandable :)

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Ceraunophile:

Thunderbolts and lightning
are good at delighting
me!

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Classic :)

[med_cat]

Good one, yes :)

[alien-fx-fiend.livejournal.com]

Awesome list yo! I had only heard of nyctophile, & selenophile.. eventually...

[med_cat]

Pleased you liked it! I'd not actually run across any of these before, myself :)

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yay lightning love!

---L.

[med_cat]

Indeed...have you ever seen a derecho?

[prettygoodword.livejournal.com]

Yes -- I live in a flat desert.

---L.

[med_cat]

Ah ;) We had the..."pleasure" 3-4 years ago.

It was quite spectacular...

[theidolhands.livejournal.com]

You mean there are others like me?

[med_cat]

Haha, of course! :)

[calzephyr77.livejournal.com]

Is there a word for early birds? :)

[med_cat]

Hee, I don't know, but I'll share with you something my college history prof once mentioned.

She said, "They always say the early bird gets the worm...

...but what about the worm?!"...it certainly wasn't better off b/c it got up early!!!

;))