Meaning of fearthought | Babel Free

Definitions

Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness.

uncountable

Examples

“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.”

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

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