deathfear en · NOUN
Etymology
From death + fear.
Meanings
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(rare, uncountable) Fear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.
Correct understanding of the fourth dimension enables the planetary kin to understand the ignorance of deathfear, the chief failure of third-dimensional will.
1995, Sheldon Nidle, Galactic Human, page 39:[…] 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.
1942, Walter Ripton Morris, American in Search of a Way, page 51: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.
1990, Ivan Stang, Three-fisted Tales of "Bob", page 108:[…] and sideways, whichever direction they could like chickens on flight in deathfear before slaughter, chased by billowing crowd and then battered to death.
1975, Deben Laha, Play, Stories & Sketches, page 103:"[…] Death-fear and death-wish were more than just neighbors, and many times the fear was a wish and the wish a fear."
2016, Antal Szerb, Traveler and the Moonlight:So is born the dread memory-debilitating disease, deathfear.
1996, Jose Arguelles, The Arcturus Probe, page 138:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| death-fear | alternative | lexicographic | |
| death fear | alternative | lexicographic |