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Definition of Horror
1. Noun. Intense and profound fear.
2. Noun. Something that inspires dislike; something horrible. "The painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
3. Noun. Intense aversion.
Generic synonyms: Disgust
Derivative terms: Repugnant
Definition of Horror
1. n. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement.
Definition of Horror
1. Noun. An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance. ¹
2. Noun. An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence. ¹
3. Noun. A literary genre, generally of a gothic character. ¹
4. Noun. (The '''horrors''', informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Horror
1. a feeling of intense fear or repugnance [n -S]
Medical Definition of Horror
1. 1. A bristling up; a rising into roughness; tumultuous movement. "Such fresh horror as you see driven through the wrinkled waves." (Chapman) 2. 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. 3. A painful emotion of fear, dread, and abhorrence; a shuddering with terror and detestation; the feeling inspired by something frightful and shocking. "How could this, in the sight of heaven, without horrors of conscience be uttered?" (Milton) 4. That which excites horror or dread, or is horrible; gloom; dreariness. "Breathes a browner horror on the woods." (Pope) The horrors, delirium tremens. Origin: L. Horror, fr. Horrere to bristle, to shiver, to tremble with cold or dread, to be dreadful or terrible; cf. Skr. Hsh to bristle. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Horror
Literary usage of Horror
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"The expressions, " petrified " with fright or astonishment, and " frozen " with
horror, suggest a cataleptic,condition. (The original application of the ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1843)
"But the belief of the Christian was accompanied with horror. The most trifling
mark of respect to the national worship he considered as a direct homage ..."
3. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1899)
"His head fell at the first blow, and as the executioner lifted it to the sight
of all a groan of pity and horror burst from the silent crowd. Section IX. ..."
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