Noun

(-)

A feeling of fear and reverence.

A feeling of amazement.

* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV

For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.

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Noun

(en noun)

An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.

An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=

, title= , chapter=1 citation , passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}

A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

* {{quote-news

, year = 1898 , date = July 3 , newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer , page = 22 , passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc. }}

* {{quote-news

, year = 1917 , date = February 11 , newspaper = New York Times , section = Book reviews , page = 52 , passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’ }}

* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:

A Nightmare of Horror !

(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .