Meaning
1 sensesSomeone who spreads fear.
Examples
2 sentencesContrary to decades of fearmongering over the dangers of cities, city dwellers tend to live longer than people in small towns.
There's a lot of fearmongering over autonomous vehicles taking away trucking jobs, but the technology is far from ready for mass implementation.
Origin
From fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting sometFrom fear + monger (“dealer in a specific commodity; (by extension) person promoting something undesirable”).
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Forms
plural: fearmongersSynonyms
5 synonymsAntonyms
3 antonymsWord family
10 related wordsSee also
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