All fearfulness synonyms
fear·ful
F f 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.