fearologist

plural fearologists

1. countableuncountableOne who studies fearology.

   “You want to hear a new theory? Maybe your greatest fear is getting a second chance with her and blowing it.” “You don't think that fear's been pretty well faced?” “Then you haven't conquered it. Or accepted it. Or something.” “Or something?” “"Or something?"” “I'm not a fearologist!”

   2023 December 17, Heather Anne Campbell, “Fear No Mort” (7:07 from the start), in Rick and Morty, season 7, episode 10, spoken by Morty Smith (Harry Belden)

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   Fearology is the inter-and/or transdisciplinary systematic study carried out by fearologists into the relationship between fear, in the widest and deepest sense, and life (Fisher, Course TFI, 118), Fearism on the other hand, is the generic study of fear, its nature, scope, meaning, problems and how the fear problems can be managed.

   2019, Michael Bassey, “Fear as an Impediment to Inclusive Unity: The Fearism Perspective” (chapter 5), in Philosophy of Unity: Love as an Ultimate Unifier, Xilbris Corporation, →ISBN, page 150