fear

emotion induced by perceived danger or threat
Event negative_emotion Q44619
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fear

Summary

fear is a negative emotion[1]. fear draws 2,187 Wikipedia views per month (negative_emotion category, ranking #4 of 34).[2]

Key Facts

  • fear's instance of is recorded as negative emotion[3].
  • fear's instance of is recorded as psychology concept[4].
  • fear is a type of anxiety[5].
  • fear is a type of basic emotion[6].
  • fear's Commons category is recorded as Fear[7].
  • fear's said to be the same as is recorded as angst[8].
  • fear is the opposite of boldness[9].
  • fear is the opposite of sense of security[10].
  • fear's Unicode character is recorded as ๐Ÿ˜จ[11].
  • fear's Unicode character is recorded as ๐Ÿ˜ฐ[12].
  • fear's Unicode character is recorded as ๐Ÿ˜ฑ[13].
  • fear's has cause is recorded as intimidation[14].
  • fear's has cause is recorded as phobia[15].
  • fear's has cause is recorded as danger[16].
  • fear's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Fear[17].
  • fear's facet of is recorded as theory of emotion[18].
  • fear's described by source is recorded as Gujin Tushu Jicheng[19].
  • fear's described by source is recorded as Lean Logic[20].
  • fear's described by source is recorded as Metropolitan Museum of Art Tagging Vocabulary[21].
  • fear's described by source is recorded as The Domestic Encyclopรฆdia; Or, A Dictionary Of Facts, And Useful Knowledge[22].
  • fear's partially coincident with is recorded as dread[23].
  • fear's Stack Exchange tag is recorded as https://psychology.stackexchange.com/tags/fear[24].
  • fear's has effect is recorded as epinephrine binding[25].
  • fear's different from is recorded as Pelko[26].
  • fear's hashtag is recorded as scared[27].

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Context

Recorded instance of include negative emotion[3] and psychology concept[4].

Outcome and Impact

Things named for fear include Lacus Timoris[28], a lacus[29] and Island of Fear[30], an island[31], in Brazil[32].

Why It Matters

fear draws 2,187 Wikipedia views per month (negative_emotion category, ranking #4 of 34).[2] fear has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[33] fear is known by 62 alternative names across languages and contexts.[34]

Entities named for fear include Lacus Timoris[28], a lacus[29] and Island of Fear[30], an island[31], in Brazil[32].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] โ†‘ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] โ†‘ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [33] โ†‘ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [34] โ†‘ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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