childhood fear
Early life terror
Childhood fear refers to the anxieties and terrors that afflict young children—monsters under the bed, the dark, being abandoned.
The phrase often carries nostalgic or dismissive undertones, suggesting fears that seem irrational from an adult perspective: She still had a childhood fear of clowns.
These fears may persist into adulthood or serve as touchstones for understanding later anxieties.
- nightmareFrightening dream causing wakefulness
- bad dreamFrightening sleep vision
- monsterFrightening imaginary creature
- monster under bedImagined nocturnal bedroom threat
- darkAbsence of light
closet · boogeyman · bedtime · shadow · thunder · loud noises · stranger · stranger danger · hiding · crying · blanket · scream · imagination · basement · clown · spider · alone · being alone
childhood fearchildhood wonder
Youth's natural amazement
childhood innocence · childlike wonder · youthful exuberance
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