fear's
Belonging to anxiety
Fear's is the possessive form of fear.
It attributes qualities or effects to the emotion itself: fear's grip on the community, fear's power to paralyze.
This personifying construction appears mainly in literary or rhetorical contexts.
Fear's also contracts "fear is" or "fear has": Fear's a powerful motivator.
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
fright · apprehension · trepidation · alarm · unease · distress · anguish · foreboding
Reverent fear and wonder
- respectRegard with honor
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
- pietySincere religious devotion
devotion · submission · humility · reverence · godliness · solemnity · deference · trembling
terror
Extreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
horror · fright · apprehension · trepidation · alarm · unease · distress · anguish · foreboding · nervousness
awe
Reverent fear and wonder
- respectRegard with honor
- venerationProfound admiring respect
- worshipReligious reverence and praise
piety · devotion · submission · humility · reverence · godliness · solemnity · deference · trembling · obedience
phobia
Persistent irrational dread
death · snake · flying · confined space · water · crowd · stranger · failure · rejection · abandonment
danger
Exposure to harm
intimidation · warning · coercion · deterrent · leverage · power · control · dominance · subjugation · oppression
- fear of heightsAnxiety about elevation
- without fearAbsent of dread
- fear of the unknownDread of unfamiliar things
- nothing to fearAbsence of peril
- face your fearsDeliberately approach what terrifies
- fear of the dark
fear, fears, feared, fearing, fearful, fearfully, fearfulness, fearless, fearlessly