Fear

Fear (< Old High German for ( a) hta < gothic faurhtei ) is the feeling of a concrete tangible threat. It involves the reaction of consciousness on a current or forward unsuspected danger. It must be distinguished from the colloquial term used largely synonymously diffuse fears, which are among the psychoses, and of manifestations such as compulsions, panic or phobias.

In contrast to fear is fear most rationally justifiable and reality meet. It is therefore also referred to as a real fear. Where this is not the case, there is usually a phobia. Fear (Latin timor ) is distinguished from the more abstract, diffuse anxiety (Latin angor ) by their directionality on a concrete object from which is perceived as a real or perceived threat as real. In contrast to the fear she has such a this-worldly detectable object to meet, or is to avoid the. Fear, however, is an undirected emotional state that affects mood as the discovery of the world as a whole.

Practically transitions between anxiety and fear or feeling states are possible depending on the degree of abstractness / concreteness of the underlying complex idea, in which the scan can not differentiate between fear and anxiety.

Terms such as reverence or fear of God emphasize the respect ( respect ) before a certain superiority.

In another ( transferred to the animal world) sense, the fear of a living being in front of an object (which may be another living being, an object or situation ) the (emotional ) response of this organism to the knowledge or suspicion that of the object a risk it will end. This fear is essential to life because it motivates them to take defensive measures to avoid the risk (eg increased alertness ), to escape from it ( flight) or oppose it (combat or counterattack ).

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Virgil has the Laocoon in the Aeneid warn the Trojans against the Greeks with the words: Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes - with Schiller: ". Greeks I fear, even when they bring gifts " (referring to the Trojan Horse )