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fearscape

fearscape noun: a place or general atmosphere of fear.

Noun

fearscape (plural fearscapes)

  1. A place or general atmosphere of fear.
    • I escape into your escape / Into our very favorite fearscape1992, Tori Amos, “Mother”, in Little Earthquakes
    • Pidduck has observed the recurrent contemporary tendency to represent sexuality through the metaphor of war - from government reports, with titles such as The War against Women, to feminist texts on sexuality, with titles such as The War Zone - as something innately violent that threatens to...1997, Lise Gotell, “Shaping Butler: The New Politics of Anti-Pornography”, in Brenda Cossman, Shannon Bell, editors, Bad Attitude/s on Trial: Pornography, Feminism, and the Butler Decision...

Forms of fearscape

pluralfearscapes

Origin of fearscape

From fear + -scape.

Questions about fearscape

What does fearscape mean?
Fearscape means a place or general atmosphere of fear.
What part of speech is fearscape?
Fearscape is a noun.
What is the plural of fearscape?
The plural of fearscape is fearscapes.

Words near fearscape in the dictionary

  1. fearologists
  2. fearology
  3. Fearon
  4. Fearons
  5. fears
  6. fearscape
  7. fearscapes
  8. Fearses
  9. fearsome
  10. fearsome critter
  11. fearsome critters

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