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All fearfulness synonyms

fear·ful
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noun fearfulness

  • perturbation — the act of perturbing.
  • distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
  • fright — sudden and extreme fear; a sudden terror.
  • apprehension — Apprehension is a feeling of fear that something bad may happen.
  • alarm — Alarm is a feeling of fear or anxiety that something unpleasant or dangerous might happen.
  • affright — to frighten
  • angst — Angst is a feeling of anxiety and worry.
  • trepidation — tremulous fear, alarm, or agitation; perturbation.
  • uneasiness — not easy in body or mind; uncomfortable; restless; disturbed; perturbed.
  • dread — to fear greatly; be in extreme apprehension of: to dread death.
  • threat — a declaration of an intention or determination to inflict punishment, injury, etc., in retaliation for, or conditionally upon, some action or course; menace: He confessed under the threat of imprisonment.
  • terror — intense, sharp, overmastering fear: to be frantic with terror.
  • panic — Also called panic grass. any grass of the genus Panicum, many species of which bear edible grain.
  • horror — an overwhelming and painful feeling caused by something frightfully shocking, terrifying, or revolting; a shuddering fear: to shrink back from a mutilated corpse in horror.
  • worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
  • concern — Concern is worry about a situation.
  • anxiety — Anxiety is a feeling of nervousness or worry.
  • awe — Awe is the feeling of respect and amazement that you have when you are faced with something wonderful and often rather frightening.
  • fear — a river in SE North Carolina. 202 miles (325 km) long.
  • terribleness — distressing; severe: a terrible winter.
  • atrociousness — The state of being atrocious.
  • dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
  • awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
  • frightful — such as to cause fright; dreadful, terrible, or alarming: A frightful howl woke us.
  • hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
  • horrid — such as to cause horror; shockingly dreadful; abominable.
  • severity — harshness, sternness, or rigor: Their lives were marked by severity.
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