Danger vs. Fear

Exposure to likely harm; peril.

An instance or cause of likely harm.

(obsolete) Mischief.

The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

Example: ‘The north signal was at danger because of the rockslide.’;

(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

(obsolete) Liability.

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.

(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

(obsolete) To claim liability.

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.

(obsolete) To run the risk.

Authority; jurisdiction; control.

Example: ‘In dangerhad he . . . the young girls.’;

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

Example: ‘You stand within his danger, do you not?’; ‘Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in dangerof this statute.’;

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

Difficulty; sparingness.

Coyness; disdainful behavior.

Example: ‘Those rich man in whose debt and danger they be not.’;

To endanger.

the condition of being susceptible to harm or injury;

Example: ‘you are in no danger’; ‘there was widespread danger of disease’;

a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;

Example: ‘he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime’; ‘there was a danger he would do the wrong thing’;

a cause of pain or injury or loss;

Example: ‘he feared the dangers of traveling by air’;

a dangerous place;

Example: ‘He moved out of danger’;

the possibility of suffering harm or injury

Example: ‘his life was in danger’;

a cause or likely cause of harm or injury

Example: ‘the dangers of smoking’;

the possibility of something unwelcome or unpleasant happening

Example: ‘there was no danger of the champagne running out’; ‘she was in danger of being exploited’;

the status of a railway signal indicating that the line is not clear and that a train should not proceed

Example: ‘one of the trains involved passed a signal at danger’;

(uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

Example: ‘He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.’;

(countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

Example: ‘Not everybody has the same fears.’; ‘I have a fear of ants.’;

(uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

(transitive) To feel fear about (something or someone); to be afraid of; to consider or expect with alarm.

Example: ‘I fear the worst will happen.’;

(intransitive) To feel fear (about something).

Example: ‘Never fear; help is always near.’; ‘She fears for her son’s safety.’;

(transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

Example: ‘People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.’;

(transitive) Regret.

Example: ‘I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.’;

To cause fear to; to frighten.

To be anxious or solicitous for.

To suspect; to doubt.

(dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

Example: ‘hale and fear’;

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Example: ‘Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.’; ‘Where no hope is left, is left no fear.’;

Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Being.

Example: ‘I will put my fear in their hearts.’; ‘I will teach you the fear of the Lord.’; ‘Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear.’;

That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.

Example: ‘There were they in great fear, where no fear was.’; ‘The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise.’;

To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

Example: ‘I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.’;

To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

Example: ‘Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.’;

To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for.

Example: ‘The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you.’;

To suspect; to doubt.

Example: ‘Ay what else, fear you not her courage?’;

To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

Example: ‘Fear their people from doing evil.’; ‘Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.’;

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

Example: ‘I exceedingly fear and quake.’;

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

an anxious feeling;

Example: ‘care had aged him’; ‘they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction’;

a profound emotion inspired by a deity;

Example: ‘the fear of God’;

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event;

Example: ‘I fear she might get aggressive’;

be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;

Example: ‘I fear the winters in Moscow’; ‘We should not fear the Communists!’;

be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;

Example: ‘I fear I won't make it to your wedding party’;

be uneasy or apprehensive about;

Example: ‘I fear the results of the final exams’;

regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;

Example: ‘Fear God as your father’; ‘We venerate genius’;

Fear is an emotion induced by the perception or recognition of phenomena which can pose a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes and therefore may produce behavioral changes, such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.