noun
1. an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
• Ant: ↑fearlessness (for: ↑fear)
• Hypernyms: ↑emotion
• Hyponyms:
↑alarm, ↑dismay, ↑consternation, ↑creeps, ↑frisson, ↑shiver, ↑chill, ↑quiver, ↑shudder, ↑thrill, ↑tingle, ↑horror, ↑hysteria, ↑panic, ↑terror, ↑affright, ↑scare, ↑panic attack, ↑stage fright, ↑apprehension, ↑apprehensiveness, ↑dread, ↑timidity, ↑timidness, ↑timorousness, ↑intimidation
• Part Meronyms: ↑cold sweat
2. the trait of being afraid
• Ant: ↑fearlessness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑fearful
• Hypernyms: ↑cowardice, ↑cowardliness
• Hyponyms: ↑timidity, ↑timorousness, ↑pusillanimity, ↑pusillanimousness, ↑gutlessness
Useful english dictionary. 2012.