Nycteseric
Nycteseric is a scenegender identity in the Scene System in which one's gender can be described as a peaceful desert at night. It can feel alive, warm yet coolly calming, and/or peaceful.
Common Definitions
| “ | a gender in the scene system that can be described as a desert at night. there is nothing anywhere except the darkened expanse of sweltering desert- vast in its sweltering mystery and dryly peaceful in the light of the stars- everything is still yet alive, warm yet coolly calming, and peaceful yet frantic with darkness- the immeasurable vastness of cool serenity and hot activity in the clutches of nighttime | ” |
–mogai-sunflowers, 2021[1] | ||
Etymology
The term nycteseric comes from desert and a modified version of the Greek word for night, anglicized as "nychta".[1]