fearfulness

1. An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight) (synset 107534492)
   tells us about:

   • afraid - filled with fear or apprehension
   • fearless, unafraid - oblivious of dangers or perils or calmly resolute in facing them
   is a type of: emotion - any strong feeling
   subtypes:

   • alarm, consternation, dismay - fear resulting from the awareness of danger
   • creeps - a feeling of fear and revulsion
   • chill, frisson, quiver, shiver, shudder, thrill, tingle - an almost pleasurable sensation of fright
   • horror - intense and profound fear
   • hysteria - excessive or uncontrollable fear
   • affright, panic, terror - an overwhelming feeling of fear and anxiety
   • panic attack, scare - a sudden attack of fear
   • stage fright - fear that affects a person about to face an audience
   • apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread - fearful expectation or anticipation
   • timidity, timidness, timorousness - fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions
   • intimidation - the feeling of being intimidated; being made to feel afraid or timid
   has: cold sweat - the physical condition of concurrent perspiration and chill; associated with fear
   same as: fear, fright
2. The trait of being afraid (synset 104867817)
   is a type of: cowardice, cowardliness - the trait of lacking courage
   subtypes:

   • timidity, timorousness - fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities
   • pusillanimity, pusillanimousness - contemptible fearfulness
   • gutlessness - the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury

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