Fear vs. Trust — What's the Difference?

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.

Firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance

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

The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one

A state or condition marked by this feeling

One in which confidence is placed.

A feeling of disquiet or apprehension

Custody; care

A reason for dread or apprehension

Something committed into the care of another; a charge

Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a deity.

Reliance on something in the future; hope

To be afraid or frightened of

Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit

To be uneasy or apprehensive about

A legal relationship in which one party holds a title to property while another party has the entitlement to the beneficial use of that property.

To consider probable; expect

The confidence reposed in a trustee when giving the trustee legal title to property to administer for another, together with the trustee's obligation regarding that property and the beneficiary.

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

The property so held.

To be afraid

An institution or organization directed by trustees

To be uneasy or apprehensive

A combination of firms or corporations for the purpose of reducing competition and controlling prices throughout a business or industry.

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

To have or place confidence in; depend on

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

To have confidence in allowing (someone) to use, know, or look after something

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

To expect with assurance; assume

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

To give credence to; believe

(intransitive) To feel fear.

To place in the care of another person or in a situation deemed safe; entrust

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

To extend credit to.

(transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.

To have or place reliance; depend

(transitive) To regret.

To be confident; hope.

To cause fear to; to frighten.

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.

To be anxious or solicitous for.

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

To suspect; to doubt.

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.

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

That which is committed or entrusted; something received in confidence; a charge.

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

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

(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.

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

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

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

(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.

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

(legal) An arrangement whereby property or money is given to be held by a third party (a trustee), on the basis that it will be managed for the benefit of, or eventually transferred to, a stated beneficiary; for example, money to be given to a child when he or she reaches adulthood.

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

A group of businessmen or traders organised for mutual benefit to produce and distribute specific commodities or services, and managed by a central body of trustees.

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

(computing) Affirmation of the access rights of a user of a computer system.

To suspect; to doubt.

(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.

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

To have faith in; to rely on for continuing support or aid.

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

(transitive) To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

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

(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)

An anxious feeling;

(transitive) to show confidence in a person by entrusting them with something.

A profound emotion inspired by a deity;

(transitive) To commit, as to one's care; to entrust.

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

(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.

Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;

To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).

Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;

To risk; to venture confidently.

Be uneasy or apprehensive about;

(intransitive) To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

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

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

(obsolete) Secure, safe.

(obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

(legal) of or relating to a trust.

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; reliance.

Credit given; especially, delivery of property or merchandise in reliance upon future payment; exchange without immediate receipt of an equivalent; as, to sell or buy goods on trust.

Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.

That which is committed or intrusted to one; something received in confidence; charge; deposit.

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.

An estate devised or granted in confidence that the devisee or grantee shall convey it, or dispose of the profits, at the will, or for the benefit, of another; an estate held for the use of another; a confidence respecting property reposed in one person, who is termed the trustee, for the benefit of another, who is called the cestui que trust.

An equitable right or interest in property distinct from the legal ownership thereof; a use (as it existed before the Statute of Uses); also, a property interest held by one person for the benefit of another. Trusts are active, or special, express, implied, constructive, etc. In a passive trust the trustee simply has title to the trust property, while its control and management are in the beneficiary.

A business organization or combination consisting of a number of firms or corporations operating, and often united, under an agreement creating a trust (in sense 1), esp. one formed mainly for the purpose of regulating the supply and price of commodities, etc.; often, opprobriously, a combination formed for the purpose of controlling or monopolizing a trade, industry, or business, by doing acts in restraint or trade; as, a sugar trust. A trust may take the form of a corporation or of a body of persons or corporations acting together by mutual arrangement, as under a contract or a so-called gentlemen's agreement. When it consists of corporations it may be effected by putting a majority of their stock either in the hands of a board of trustees (whence the name trust for the combination) or by transferring a majority to a holding company. The advantages of a trust are partly due to the economies made possible in carrying on a large business, as well as the doing away with competition. In the United States severe statutes against trusts have been passed by the Federal government and in many States, with elaborate statutory definitions.

Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.

To hope confidently; to believe; - usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.

To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.

To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment; as, merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

To risk; to venture confidently.

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.

To be confident, as of something future; to hope.

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.

Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary);

Certainty based on past experience;

The trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others;

A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service;

Complete confidence in a person or plan etc;

A trustful relationship;

Have confidence or faith in;

Allow without fear

Be confident about something;

Expect and wish;

Confer a trust upon;

Extend credit to