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the body's oldest alarm, screaming in a language older than words.
means Intense, overwhelming fear — the kind that floods the body and freezes or scatters thought.
from From Latin 'terror,' fright or dread, rooted in the verb 'terrēre,' to frighten or scare away. It came into English through Old French 'terreur' in the late Middle Ages. The same Latin root sits behind 'terrible,' 'terrify,' and 'deter' — literally to frighten someone off a course.
- french origin
- The word birthed the Reign of Terror, 1793
- amygdala alert
- Fear fires before your conscious mind notices threat
- frozen response
- Tonic immobility plays dead when fight fails
- dino name
- Deinos means terrible, root of dinosaur
- sublime cousin
- Philosophers ranked terror as a source of beauty