Canadian English Meaning of horror

Horror

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Definitions and Meaning of horror in English

Wordnet

horror (n)

intense and profound fear

something that inspires horror; something horrible

intense aversion

Webster

horror (n.)

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

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.

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

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

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Horror

intense and profound fear, something that inspires horror; something horrible, intense aversionA bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement., A

Atrocity,awfulness,dreadfulness,frightfulness,ghastliness,gruesomeness,agony,anguish,atrociousness,Badness

agreeableness,appeal,attraction,desirability,Pleasantness (pleasantness),deliciousness,allure,attractiveness,pleasantness,desirability

horrisonous => horrible, horrisonant => horrifying, horripilation => Goosebumps, horripilate => spine-tingling, horrifyingly => horrifyingly,