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deathfear

deathfear noun: fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.

Noun

deathfear (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.
    • […] everybody in the world has known about since mankind started this civilization business but anyhow I never jumped out of any bus or been seized by deathfear like that only had bad dreams and splitting headaches and now and then a flood of whorehouse images.1942, Walter Ripton Morris, American in Search of a Way, page 51
    • […] and sideways, whichever direction they could like chickens on flight in deathfear before slaughter, chased by billowing crowd and then battered to death.1975, Deben Laha, Play, Stories & Sketches, page 103
    Synonyms:
    thanatophobia

Examples of deathfear in a sentence

  • Correct understanding of the fourth dimension enables the planetary kin to understand the ignorance of deathfear, the chief failure of third-dimensional will.1995, Sheldon Nidle, Galactic Human, page 39:
  • So is born the dread memory-debilitating disease, deathfear.1996, Jose Arguelles, The Arcturus Probe, page 138:

Synonyms of deathfear

Forms of deathfear

alternative formdeath-fear
alternative formdeath fear

Origin of deathfear

From death + fear.

Questions about deathfear

What does deathfear mean?
Deathfear means fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.
How do you use deathfear in a sentence?
Correct understanding of the fourth dimension enables the planetary kin to understand the ignorance of deathfear, the chief failure of third-dimensional will.
What part of speech is deathfear?
Deathfear is a noun.

Words near deathfear in the dictionary

  1. Deatherage
  2. Deatherages
  3. deathers
  4. deathfat
  5. deathfats
  6. deathfear
  7. deathfic
  8. deathfics
  9. deathfluencer
  10. deathfluencers
  11. deathful

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