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Nyctousnik-tuhs

adj. Feeling quietly overjoyed to be the only one awake in the middle of the night--sitting alone with a laptop and a cup of tea or strolling down the center line of an abandoned street--taking in the world like an empty theater between productions, stripped down to a simple black box, open to be whatever you want it to be.

Etymology

From Nyctocereus, a genus of cactus that blooms only at night. Pronounced “nik-tuhs.”

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