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fearmonging

fearmonging is the misconstruction of fearmongering.

fearmonging is the present participle and gerund of fearmong.

Meaning of fearmongering

Noun

fearmongering (usually uncountable, plural fearmongerings)

  1. (usually) The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
    • But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies.2023 April 5, Mark Hay, “Does Testosterone Affect Your Politics?”, in VICE

Origin of fearmonging

From fearmong + -ing.

Questions about fearmonging

What is fearmonging the misconstruction of?
Fearmonging is the misconstruction of fearmongering.

Words near fearmonging in the dictionary

  1. fearmongerer
  2. fearmongerers
  3. fearmongering
  4. fearmongerings
  5. fearmongers
  6. fearmonging
  7. fearmongs
  8. Fearn
  9. fearnaught
  10. fearnaughts
  11. Fearnhead

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