fear; dread; dismay; terror; horror; scare
feeling of dread; awful feeling; sense of fear
fear of heights; acrophobia
gynophobia; fear of women
politics of fear; terrorism; reign of terror (esp. in the French revolution)
anthropophobia; social anxiety disorder
to be seized with fear; to be seized with panic
aichmophobia (fear of sharply pointed objects); belonephobia
haphephobia (fear of being touched); aphephobia; haptephobia; haptophobia; chiraptophobia
nyctophobia; fear of the dark; scotophobia
fear of death; thanatophobia
claustrophobia; fear of confined spaces
trypophobia (fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes)
fear of flying; aviophobia; aerophobia
aquaphobia; pathological fear of water
erythrophobia; fear of blushing
scary story; horror story
fear index; volatility index
fear of having blank days (e.g. for a freelancer); fear of not having anything planned
hemophobia; haemophobia; fear of blood
dysmorphophobia; body dysmorphic disorder; cacophobia
feelings of dread and aversion
olfactory reference syndrome; ORS; autodysomophobia; fear of having an unpleasant body odour
coulrophobia; fear of clowns
pathological fear of passing wind
hylophobia; fear of forests or wooded areas
nosophobia; disease phobia
entomophobia; fear of insects