war fever
Appetite for conflict
War fever is intense public enthusiasm for military conflict, often marked by patriotic fervor, demonization of enemies, and eagerness to fight.
The term typically carries critical undertones, suggesting emotion has overtaken reason: War fever swept the nation after the attack.
Like other fevers, it implies something heated, contagious, and potentially dangerous.
- jingoismBellicose extreme patriotism
- patriotismDevotion to one's homeland
- rally round the flagUnify in national crisis
- militarismPro-force national policy
- propagandaBiased information for influence
yellow journalism · fervor · hysteria · bloodlust · nationalism · support our troops · drums · rallying · mobilization · sabers · saber rattling · flags · frenzy · zeal · call to arms · bellicose · hawkish · warmongering
- warmongeringwarmongering, warmongers, jingoism, saber-rattling, belligerence
- WWI causesassassination, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Sarajevo, militarism, alliances
- warfarebattle, combat, attack, armed conflict, military strategy
- collective emotionscollective guilt, mass hysteria, national pride, national mourning, emotional contagion
- violenceviolence, physical attack, brutality, physical violence, aggression
war feverpacifism
Antiwar moral stance
peace movement · dovishness · nonviolence · conscientious objection · diplomacy
war feverwar weariness
Depleted will to fight
war fatigue · peace · restraint · battle fatigue · conflict avoidance
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