Fear Definition, Prefix, Suffix, Ologies and Isms, Fear Information and Meaning

See also PHOBIAS.

horripilation

the raising of the hairs on the skin as a response to cold or fear; goose bumps or goose pimples.

panophobia

1. a nonspecific fear, a state of general anxiety.

2. an abnormal fear of everything. Also panphobia, pantaphobia, pantophobia. —panophobe, n. —panophobic, adj.

phobophobia

1. an abnormal fear of being af raid; a fear of fear itself.

2. a fear of phobias.

polyphobia

an abnormal fear of many things.