HORROR

horror

(noun) something that inspires horror; something horrible; “the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him”

repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, horror

(noun) intense aversion

horror

(noun) intense and profound fear

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

horror (countable and uncountable, plural horrors)

(countable, uncountable) An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

(countable, uncountable) Something horrible; that which excites horror.

(countable, uncountable) Intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

(uncountable) A genre of fiction designed to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.

(countable) An individual work in this genre.

(countable, colloquial) A nasty or ill-behaved person; a rascal or terror.

(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; often the horrors.

(plural, informal) Delirium tremens.

Synonyms

• nightmare

Hypernyms

• speculative fiction

Source: Wiktionary

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Hor"ror, n. Etym: [Formerly written horrour.] Etym: [L. horror, fr. horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. h to bristle.]

1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. [Archaic] Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves. Chapman.

2. A shaking, shivering, or shuddering, as in the cold fit which precedes a fever; in old medical writings, a chill of less severity than a rigor, and more marked than an algor.

3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered Milton.

4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. Breathes a browner horror on the woods. Pope. The horrors, delirium tremens. [Colloq.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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