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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. 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)
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