alarm vs fearfulness

fearfulness vs alarm

alarm and fearfulness both are nouns.

alarm is a verb but fearfulness is not a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
alarm	Yes	No	Yes	No
fearfulness	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, fearfulness is a hypernym of alarm; that is, fearfulness is a word with a broader meaning than alarm:

alarm: fear resulting from the awareness of danger
fearfulness: an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

Other hypernyms of alarm include fear, fright.

alarm (noun)	fearfulness (noun)
a device that signals the occurrence of some undesirable event	the trait of being afraid
a clock that wakes a sleeper at some preset time	an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
an automatic signal (usually a sound) warning of danger
fear resulting from the awareness of danger

alarm (verb)	fearfulness (verb)
warn or arouse to a sense of danger or call to a state of preparedness
fill with apprehension or alarm; cause to be unpleasantly surprised

Difference between alarm and fearfulness

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