Thriller vs. Horror

Thrillernoun

Something that thrills.

Thrillernoun

A suspenseful, sensational genre of story, book, play or film.

Thrillernoun

a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie

Horrornoun

An intense distressing emotion of fear or repugnance.

Horrornoun

(countable) An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.

Horrornoun

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

Horrornoun

Something horrible; that which excites horror.

Horrornoun

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

Horrornoun

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

Horrornoun

A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.

Horrornoun

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.

Horrornoun

A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking.

Horrornoun

That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness.

Horrornoun

intense and profound fear

Horrornoun

something that inspires horror; something horrible;

Horrornoun

intense aversion