Fear vs Horror - What's the difference?
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(lb) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=I corralled the judge, and we started off across the fields, in no very mild state of fear of that gentleman's wife, whose vigilance was seldom relaxed.}}
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, chapter=18 (lb) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
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(lb) Extreme veneration or awe, as toward a supreme being or deity.
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* Bible, (Psalms)
To cause fear to; to frighten.
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* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To feel fear about (something); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.
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, title= (lb) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
(lb) Regret.
(lb) To be anxious or solicitous for.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(lb) To suspect; to doubt.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
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, chapter=1 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.
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* {{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.’
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(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As nouns the difference between fear and horror
is that fear is (uncountable: unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat while horror is an intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.As a verb fear
is to cause fear to; to frighten.As an adjective fear
is able; capable; stout; strong; sound.fear
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) feer, fere, fer, from (etyl) . The verb is from (etyl) feren, from (etyl) , from the noun.Noun
- Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear .
citation, passage=‘Then the father has a great fight with his terrible conscience,’ said Munday with granite seriousness. ‘Should he make a row with the police
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
- I will put my fear in their hearts.
- I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Synonyms
* , terror, fright * , anxiety, apprehension * (extreme veneration) awe, reverence, veneration * See alsoDerived terms
* affear * fearful * fearless * fearmonger * fearnaught * fearsome * no fearVerb
(en verb)- Thenne the knyghte sayd to syre Gawayn / bynde thy wounde or thy blee chaunge / for thou bybledest al thy hors and thy fayre armes // For who someuer is hurte with this blade he shalle neuer be staunched of bledynge / Thenne ansuerd gawayn hit greueth me but lytyl / thy grete wordes shalle not feare me ne lasse my courage
- Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.
- I greatly fear my money is not safe.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear —man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
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Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
- The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, thereforeI fear you.
- Fear you not her courage?
Synonyms
* be afraid of, be frightened of, be scared of, be terrorised/terrorized be * (venerate) be in awe of, revere, venerateDerived terms
* fear not * God-fearing * never fearEtymology 2
From (etyl) fere, feore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Statistics
*horror
English
Alternative forms
* horrourNoun
(en noun)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 Nightmare of Horror !