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What is fear?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Fear is simply ignorance.

    If your ignorant about something, then you don't know about it...and you jump to assumptions. So therefore your afraid of it.

    That's all it is.

  • SteveT
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Fear is a basic emotional sensation and response system ("feeling") initiated by an aversion to some perceived risk or threat.

    Sort of like you might get after posting a sarcastic answer here and wondering if the poster is going to send you a nasty email or a virus or something

  • 1 decade ago

    i am sure everyone will have a different answer....

    A feeling of agitation and anxiety caused by the presence or imminence of danger.

    A state or condition marked by this feeling: living in fear.

    A feeling of disquiet or apprehension: a fear of looking foolish.

    Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a supreme power.

    A reason for dread or apprehension:

  • 1 decade ago

    An innate response to a threat to yourself or to your kin. The body secretes adreanaline to activate the fight or flight responses. The body then concentrates its energy on the most important organs to ensure optimum speed and performance during the episode of fear.

  • 1 decade ago

    people who fear things have no wisdom, for example when we look at death or the dark it is not fear we feel it is the 'unknown' there is nothing to fear from a dead body just as there is nothing to be feared from the darkness!

    hope this helps,

    Nick

  • 1 decade ago

    The feeling of distress (being upset in the wake of an accident or a situation where we are in danger or lose control), apprehension (nervousness about an exam, punishment for something we have done wrong) or alarm caused by impending danger or pain - something we don't like and therefore dread.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Fear is something u r worried about, scared about, not wanting it to happen, e.g. " i fear heights" that means u hate heights/scared!!!!!!!!!!!!

    OR IF U STILL DON'T GET IT GO TO dictionary.co.uk IT WILL BE YOUR GUIDE!!!!!!!1

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    but fear itself

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Buying a french car

  • 1 decade ago

    That's what Davy Crockett asked! Aren't both of you fortunate not to know!

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