fearfulness

1. 1.

   an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

   Synonymsfearfright

   Broaderemotion

   Narroweralarmcreepsfrissonhorrorhysteriapanicscarestage frightapprehensiontimidity

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2. 2.

   the trait of being afraid

   Antonymsfearlessness

   Broadercowardice

   Narrowertimiditypusillanimitygutlessness

Other forms of fearfulness

plural

fearfulnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about fearfulness

What does fearfulness mean?

fearfulness means "an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in fearfulness?

fearfulness has 4 syllables: fe-ar-ful-ness. The stress falls on "ar".

What is another word for fearfulness?

Close synonyms include fear, fright. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of fearfulness?

The recorded antonyms are fearlessness.

Is fearfulness a common word?

fearfulness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.