deathfear

alternative death-fear · alternative death fear

1. rareuncountableFear of death; panic that arises when death is present or imminent.

   So is born the dread memory-debilitating disease, deathfear.

   1996, Jose Arguelles, The Arcturus Probe, page 138

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   […] 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

   […] 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

   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

   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

   "[…] 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

   Synonyms: thanatophobia