fearfulness

[ UK /fˈi‍əfə‍lnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
  2. the trait of being afraid
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How To Use fearfulness In A Sentence

  • People may experience fearfulness, palpitations and even panic attacks.
  • Dread, trepidation or even uneasiness suggest a fearfulness that has mostly dissipated.
  • Emotional impairments may include apathy, irritability, anxiety, fearfulness and depression.
  • The passage is as follows, ‘the malisons which he muttered…, were of truly cabalistic length and fearfulness.’
  • At its heart is fear, and fearfulness is increasingly part of the experience of life within it.
  • Sophisticated neuroimaging shows the brains of those who suffer from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder to be abnormal in areas regulating memory retrieval and inhibition (hippocampus), fearfulness and focus (pre-frontal cortex), and emotionality and lability (amygdala). And here’s another way to look at it: « Dating Jesus
  • When someone acts bizarre and rants and raves in public, they do trigger fearfulness and avoidance in those around them. Mark Goulston, M.D.: Understanding The Arizona Shooter From The Inside Out
  • From this, or, it may be, from some deeper cause with which this is connected, arose a certain kind of fearfulness associated with the sense of hearing, of which I have never heard a corresponding instance. The Portent & Other Stories
  • For example, if the person was avoiding eye contact an indicator of fearfulness, Kurtz might say, "you're totally safe here," guessing that the client's unconscious thought otherwise. Craig K. Comstock: Remembering A Buddhist Psychotherapy Pioneer
  • This smart girl's lack of attention to her assignments, and her overt "fearfulness" surely suggest something else is going on it her life. More About the Fearful Student
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