Danger vs. Fear — What's the Difference?

The possibility of suffering harm or injury

Fear is an emotion induced by the perception or recognition of phenomena which can pose a danger or threat. Fear causes physiological changes and therefore may produce behavioral changes, such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.

Exposure or vulnerability to harm or risk.

A very unpleasant or disturbing feeling caused by the presence or imminence of danger

A source or an instance of risk or peril.

A state or condition marked by this feeling

(Obsolete) Power, especially power to harm.

A feeling of disquiet or apprehension

Exposure to likely harm; peril.

A reason for dread or apprehension

An instance or cause of likely harm.

Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a deity.

(obsolete) Mischief.

To be afraid or frightened of

The stop indication of a signal (usually in the phrase "at danger").

To be uneasy or apprehensive about

(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See in one's danger, below.

To consider probable; expect

(obsolete) Liability.

To revere or be in awe of (a deity, for example).

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness; hesitation.

To be afraid

(obsolete) To claim liability.

To be uneasy or apprehensive

(obsolete) To imperil; to endanger.

(uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.

(obsolete) To run the risk.

(countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.

Authority; jurisdiction; control.

(uncountable) Terrified veneration or reverence, particularly towards God, gods, or sovereigns.

Power to harm; subjection or liability to penalty.

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.

Exposure to injury, loss, pain, or other evil; peril; risk; insecurity.

(intransitive) To feel fear.

Difficulty; sparingness.

To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.

Coyness; disdainful behavior.

(transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

To endanger.

(transitive) To regret.

The condition of being susceptible to harm or injury;

To cause fear to; to frighten.

A venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury;

To be anxious or solicitous for.

A cause of pain or injury or loss;

To suspect; to doubt.

A dangerous place;

(dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.

Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Being.

That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.

To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.

To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.

To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for.

To suspect; to doubt.

To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.

An emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

An anxious feeling;

A profound emotion inspired by a deity;

Be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event;

Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;

Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;

Be uneasy or apprehensive about;

Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;