Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

deathfear

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: death-fear
IPA

16

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] 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."
"[…] and sideways, whichever direction they could like chickens on flight in deathfear before slaughter, chased by billowing crowd and then battered to death."
"Landing, I can see wreaths of flowers on the planecrash overpass. Twinge of deathfear. I unconsciously try to clean the blood from under my nails."
"Correct understanding of the fourth dimension enables the planetary kin to understand the ignorance of deathfear, the chief failure of third-dimensional will."
"So is born the dread memory-debilitating disease, deathfear."
""[…] Death-fear and death-wish were more than just neighbors, and many times the fear was a wish and the wish a fear.""

Etymology

From death + fear.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

death-fear (alternative) death fear (alternative)

Synonyms

thanatophobia

Questions

What does deathfear mean?: Fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.
Where does deathfear come from?: From death + fear.

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