Definition of "fearfulness" [fear•ful•ness]

• The quality of being fearful (noun)

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• "This smart girl's lack of attention to her assignments, and her overt "fearfulness" surely suggest something else is going on it her life."
• "They are not easily aroused into the fearfulness which is so often the parent of thoughtlessness."
• "From this, or, it may be, from some deeper cause with which this is connected, arose a certain kind of fearfulness associated with the sense of hearing, of which I have never heard a corresponding instance."