Fearscape
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Fearscape is a noun meaning A place or general atmosphere of fear.
Meaning
A place or general atmosphere of fear.
Example Sentences
I escape into your escape / Into our very favorite fearscape
"It's a buddy comedy where what kids are afraid of turns out to be real, and our guys have to go into these fearscapes and battle all these monsters," said McG, who is eyeing a November start for the production.
Pidduck has observed the recurrent contemporary tendency to represent sexuality through the metaphor of war - from government reports, with titles such as The War against Women, to feminist texts on sexuality, with titles such as The War Zone - as something innately violent that threatens to undermine the social order and that evokes an apocalyptic fearscape (Pidduck 1994, 5).
Word Forms
- fearscapes
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include weirdscape, horror, specter, surrealscape, pall, thoughtscape.
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