Fearthought

Quick meaning: Fearthought is a noun meaning Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness.

Meaning

Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness.

Example Sentences

The “misery-habit,” the “martyr-habit,” engendered by the prevalent “fearthought,” get pungent criticism from the mind-cure writers .

To assist in the analysis of fear, and in the denunciation of its expressions, I have coined the word fearthought to stand for the unprofitable element of forethought, and have defined the word 'worry' as fearthought in contradistinction to forethought. I have also defined fearthought as the self-imposed or self-permitted suggestion of inferiority, in order to place it where it really belongs, in the category of harmful, unnecessary, and therefore not respectable things.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include overfearfulness, overcautiousness, hypercaution, overeasiness, overcarefulness, overcaution.

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