Synonyms for fearfulness

Grammar : Noun

Spell : feer-fuhl

Phonetic Transcription : ˈfɪər fəl

Top 10 synonyms for fearfulness

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Définition of fearfulness

Origin : mid-14c., "causing fear," from fear + -ful. Meaning "full of fear, timid" (now less common) also is from mid-14c. As a mere emphatic, from 1630s. Related: Fearfully; fearfulness.

noun fear

Example sentences :

You, I know, lay this to his fearfulness of disobliging or offending.
Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson

The fearfulness of Gibson's perfidy was almost incomprehensible.
Extract from : « Spring Street » by James H. Richardson

Those who have not felt it know not the fearfulness of waiting for an Indian attack.
Extract from : « The Crossing » by Winston Churchill

The fearfulness of the consequences shows how false the supposed principle must be.
Extract from : « Sermons » by Clement Bailhache

How shall I describe to you this pressure, its fearfulness and sublimity!
Extract from : « Adrift in the Arctic Ice Pack » by Elisha Kent Kane

And as for the fearfulness of it and its fierce and awesome beauty, who can describe it?
Extract from : « Allan Quatermain » by H. Rider Haggard

The fearfulness of their nature makes them very jealous and implacable.
Extract from : « The History of Virginia, in Four Parts » by Robert Beverley

He tried to grasp the situation and fearfulness does not help at such a time.
Extract from : « The Hate Disease » by William Fitzgerald Jenkins

It is only the fearfulness of the odds to which most of them are subjected that succeeds in killing them.
Extract from : « Feminism and Sex-Extinction » by Arabella Kenealy

This feeling of distrust and fearfulness will soon pass away.
Extract from : « Memoir of Mary L. Ware, Wife of Henry Ware, Jr. » by Edward B. Hall

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