Fear

/fɪər/ noun

A strong, unpleasant feeling caused by the belief that something is dangerous, painful, or threatening. As a verb, it means to be afraid of something.

From Old English “fǣr” meaning “danger, sudden calamity,” which later shifted to mean the feeling caused by danger. The emotional sense became stronger than the external event.

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