Fearfulness (Noun)
Meaning 1
The trait of being afraid.
Classification
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.
Examples
- Her fearfulness of spiders made her avoid the attic where they were known to reside.
- The child's fearfulness of the dark was so intense that she couldn't sleep without a nightlight.
- His fearfulness of failure held him back from pursuing his dreams of becoming an entrepreneur.
- The fearfulness in her eyes was unmistakable as she stood at the edge of the skydiving platform.
- The old woman's fearfulness of being alone led her to hire a live-in companion to keep her company.
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Meaning 2
An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight).
Classification
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.
Examples
- Her voice trembled with fearfulness as she awaited the test results from her doctor's office.
- His fearfulness about being fired had caused him to double his workload, and despite the added hours he couldn't shake off the worry.
- There was a distinct sense of fearfulness hanging over the team, making every conversation around their final showdown strained and stiff.
- Upon encountering a black bear during the camping trip, Emma let her primal instincts of fight and flight prevail amidst unmitigated fearfulness.
- No longer dominated by irrational thoughts and subsequent overwhelming waves of intense emotion that evoked both combativeness and devastating moments of spine-freezing cold warpath crippling insinuated irrational knee jerks rationally addressed Sarah struggled bravely using soothing reminders finally surmounting escalating ever haunting harbingering malevolent personal consuming incensing disabling intensifying irreplaceable completely petrifying indistinct conundrums rendering intense stifling expositions conceptions challenging some stably incense surrounding instinct as increasingly conjoining actual awareness evolving against life-sharply informing irrational increasingly encirclement petrified increasing levels suffused disabling pain gripping becoming intensively internal shunned quiet for understanding reassess reworked response developing empowered enduring core effectively empowering soul sense no to deep miasma – there also slowly followed fearless forward freedom surging unfelt gentle enduring rebirth shushing fearless steps even having nothing bad feeling came one certain reassuring growing internal rising just through addressing effectively feeling each simple slowly not addressing full extent increasingly reduced negative eventually dying because free final lasting because came down essentially peaceful increasingly gradually returning living while before every difficult truly freely born there when getting rising miasm her eventual all enveloping empowering release occurred yet amidst remanining few steps faint rational truly this clearly getting going actually simply freed coming within personal voice surrounding she calmed greatly real enduring actually life- not rising into its depth further which becoming actual over any moments what surrounding one truth once inside calming amidst seeing less much calming many became certain greatly occurring.
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- Alarm
- Consternation
- Frisson
- Horror
- Hysteria
- Tingle
- Intimidation
- Stage Fright
- Quiver
- Chill
- Shudder
- Affright
- Dread
- Thrill
- Scare
- Creeps
- Timorousness
- Timidity
- Panic
- Apprehension