Deathfear
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent. rare, uncountable
"[…] 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."
Synonyms
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More examples"[…] 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."
Etymology
From death + fear.
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