deathfear

English

Alternative forms

  • death-fear, death fear

Etymology

From death +‎ fear.

Noun

deathfear (uncountable)

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