mortal fear
Overwhelming survival panic
Mortal fear is fear for one's life—the terror that comes when death seems imminent or possible.
The phrase emphasizes intensity: not ordinary anxiety but profound, visceral dread.
She lived in mortal fear of her husband's temper.
Someone in mortal fear believes they may actually die.
- terrorExtreme, overwhelming fear
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- horrorExtreme fear or disgust
- deathCessation of life
trembling · heart-pounding · survival · fight or flight · adrenaline · paralysis · nightmare · petrified · existential · visceral · primal · fleeing · doom · helpless · desperation · final moments · grave · shadow
- mortalitydeath, death knell, deceased, death rate, death acceptance
- panicpanic attack, alarm, terror, fright, hysteria
- aversionaversion, disgust, hatred, repulsion, loathing
emotional state intensity
mortal fearequanimity
Unshakable mental steadiness
fearlessness · placidity · unflappability · sang-froid · nonchalance
mortal, fear, mortality, mortally, immortal, immortality, mortify, mortified, mortification