Fearmongering
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech verb
Quick meaning: Fearmongering is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of fearmonger.
Meaning
present participle and gerund of fearmonger.
More Meanings
- The act of spreading needless fear; exaggerating purported threats in order to incite fear.
Example Sentences
But the ongoing dip they describe is far more modest than people fearmongering about a T crisis make it out to be, and likely due to lifestyle factors like sedentariness and environmental pollutants messing with our bodies.
Recent polling shows it’s the second most important issue among Americans. But a big reason for that is the relentless, bad-faith fearmongering around the issue by the Republican party themselves, perhaps best summed up by the startling growth this year of the toxic phrase ‘migrant crime’.
Word Forms
- fearmongerings
Synonyms for fearmongering
Depending on context, synonyms include alarmism, scaremongering.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include fearmonging, scaremongering, scaremongery, panicmongering, horrormongering, wordmongering.
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