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Fear vs. Trust — What's the Difference?

Fear vs. Trust — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Fear and Trust

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Fear

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.

Trust

Firm belief in the integrity, ability, or character of a person or thing; confidence or reliance
Trying to gain our clients' trust.
Taking it on trust that our friend is telling the truth.

Fear

A very unpleasant or disturbing feeling caused by the presence or imminence of danger
Our fears intensified as the storm approached.

Trust

The condition and resulting obligation of having confidence placed in one
Violated a public trust.

Fear

A state or condition marked by this feeling
Living in constant fear of attack.
Saved as much as he could for fear of losing his job.
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Trust

One in which confidence is placed.

Fear

A feeling of disquiet or apprehension
A fear of looking foolish.

Trust

Custody; care
Left her papers in my trust during her illness.

Fear

A reason for dread or apprehension
Being alone is my greatest fear.

Trust

Something committed into the care of another; a charge
Violated a public trust.

Fear

Extreme reverence or awe, as toward a deity.

Trust

Reliance on something in the future; hope
We have trust that the future will be better.

Fear

To be afraid or frightened of
A boy who fears spiders.

Trust

Reliance on the intention and ability of a purchaser to pay in the future; credit
Bought the supplies on trust from a local dealer.

Fear

To be uneasy or apprehensive about
We all feared what we would see when the grades were posted.

Trust

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.

Fear

To consider probable; expect
I fear you are wrong. I fear I have bad news for you.

Trust

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.

Fear

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

Trust

The property so held.

Fear

To be afraid
Your injury is minor. Don't fear.

Trust

An institution or organization directed by trustees
A charitable trust.

Fear

To be uneasy or apprehensive
We fear for the future of the business.

Trust

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

Fear

(uncountable) A strong, uncontrollable, unpleasant emotion or feeling caused by actual or perceived danger or threat.
He was struck by fear on seeing the snake.

Trust

To have or place confidence in; depend on
Only trusted his friends.
Did not trust the strength of the thin rope.
Could not be trusted to oversee so much money.

Fear

(countable) A phobia, a sense of fear induced by something or someone.
Not everybody has the same fears.
I have a fear of ants.

Trust

To have confidence in allowing (someone) to use, know, or look after something
Can I trust you with a secret?.

Fear

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

Trust

To expect with assurance; assume
I trust that you will be on time.

Fear

(transitive) To be afraid of (something or someone); to consider or expect (something or someone) with alarm.
I fear the worst will happen.

Trust

To give credence to; believe
I trust what you say.

Fear

(intransitive) To feel fear.
Never fear; help is always near.

Trust

To place in the care of another person or in a situation deemed safe; entrust
"the unfortunate souls who trusted their retirement savings to the stock" (Bill Barnhart).

Fear

To worry about, to feel concern for, to be afraid for.
She fears for her son’s safety.

Trust

To extend credit to.

Fear

(transitive) To venerate; to feel awe towards.
People who fear God can be found in Christian churches.

Trust

To have or place reliance; depend
We can only trust in our guide's knowledge of the terrain.

Fear

(transitive) To regret.
I fear I have bad news for you: your husband has died.

Trust

To be confident; hope.

Fear

To cause fear to; to frighten.

Trust

Confidence in or reliance on some person or quality.
He needs to regain her trust if he is ever going to win her back.
To lose trust in someone
Build up trust
A relationship built on mutual trust

Fear

To be anxious or solicitous for.

Trust

Dependence upon something in the future; hope.

Fear

To suspect; to doubt.

Trust

Confidence in the future payment for goods or services supplied; credit.
I was out of cash, but the landlady let me have it on trust.

Fear

(dialectal) Able; capable; stout; strong; sound.
Hale and fear

Trust

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

Fear

A variant of Fere, a mate, a companion.

Trust

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

Fear

A painful emotion or passion excited by the expectation of evil, or the apprehension of impending danger; apprehension; anxiety; solicitude; alarm; dread.
Fear is an uneasiness of the mind, upon the thought of future evil likely to befall us.
Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

Trust

(rare) Trustworthiness, reliability.

Fear

Apprehension of incurring, or solicitude to avoid, God's wrath; the trembling and awful reverence felt toward the Supreme Being.
I will put my fear in their hearts.
I will teach you the fear of the Lord.
Render therefore to all their dues; tribute to whom tribute is due . . . fear to whom fear.

Trust

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

Fear

That which causes, or which is the object of, apprehension or alarm; source or occasion of terror; danger; dreadfulness.
There were they in great fear, where no fear was.
The fear of your adventure would counsel you to a more equal enterprise.

Trust

(legal) The confidence vested in a person who has legal ownership of a property to manage for the benefit of another.
I put the house into my sister's trust.

Fear

To feel a painful apprehension of; to be afraid of; to consider or expect with emotion of alarm or solicitude.
I will fear no evil, for thou art with me.

Trust

(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.

Fear

To have a reverential awe of; to be solicitous to avoid the displeasure of.
Leave them to God above; him serve and fear.

Trust

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.

Fear

To be anxious or solicitous for; now replaced by fear for.
The sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore . . . I fear you.

Trust

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

Fear

To suspect; to doubt.
Ay what else, fear you not her courage?

Trust

(transitive) To place confidence in, to rely on, to confide in.
We cannot trust anyone who deceives us.

Fear

To affright; to terrify; to drive away or prevent approach of by fear.
Fear their people from doing evil.
Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.

Trust

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

Fear

To be in apprehension of evil; to be afraid; to feel anxiety on account of some expected evil.
I exceedingly fear and quake.

Trust

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

Fear

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

Trust

(transitive) To hope confidently; to believe (usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object)
I trust you have cleaned your room?

Fear

An anxious feeling;
Care had aged him
They hushed it up out of fear of public reaction

Trust

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

Fear

A profound emotion inspired by a deity;
The fear of God

Trust

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

Fear

Be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event;
I fear she might get aggressive

Trust

(transitive) To give credit to; to sell to upon credit, or in confidence of future payment.
Merchants and manufacturers trust their customers annually with goods.

Fear

Be afraid or scared of; be frightened of;
I fear the winters in Moscow
We should not fear the Communists!

Trust

To rely on (something), as though having trust (on it).
To trust to luck
Having lost the book, he had to trust to his memory for further details.

Fear

Be sorry; used to introduce an unpleasant statement;
I fear I won't make it to your wedding party

Trust

To risk; to venture confidently.

Fear

Be uneasy or apprehensive about;
I fear the results of the final exams

Trust

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

Fear

Regard with feelings of respect and reverence; consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of;
Fear God as your father
We venerate genius

Trust

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

Trust

(obsolete) Secure, safe.

Trust

(obsolete) Faithful, dependable.

Trust

(legal) of or relating to a trust.

Trust

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

Trust

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.

Trust

Assured anticipation; dependence upon something future or contingent, as if present or actual; hope; belief.
His trust was with the Eternal to be deemedEqual in strength.

Trust

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

Trust

The condition or obligation of one to whom anything is confided; responsible charge or office.
[I] serve him truly that will put me in trust.
Reward them well, if they observe their trust.

Trust

That upon which confidence is reposed; ground of reliance; hope.
O Lord God, thou art my trust from my youth.

Trust

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.

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.

Trust

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.

Trust

Held in trust; as, trust property; trustmoney.

Trust

To place confidence in; to rely on, to confide, or repose faith, in; as, we can not trust those who have deceived us.
I will never trust his word after.
He that trusts every one without reserve will at last be deceived.

Trust

To give credence to; to believe; to credit.
Trust me, you look well.

Trust

To hope confidently; to believe; - usually with a phrase or infinitive clause as the object.
I trust to come unto you, and speak face to face.
We trustwe have a good conscience.

Trust

To show confidence in a person by intrusting (him) with something.
Whom, with your power and fortune, sir, you trust,Now to suspect is vain.

Trust

To commit, as to one's care; to intrust.
Merchants were not willing to trust precious cargoes to any custody but that of a man-of-war.

Trust

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.

Trust

To risk; to venture confidently.
[Beguiled] by theeto trust thee from my side.

Trust

To have trust; to be credulous; to be won to confidence; to confide.
More to know could not be more to trust.

Trust

To be confident, as of something future; to hope.
I will trust and not be afraid.

Trust

To sell or deliver anything in reliance upon a promise of payment; to give credit.
It is happier sometimes to be cheated than not to trust.
Her widening streets on new foundations trust.
They trusted unto the liers in wait.

Trust

Something (as property) held by one party (the trustee) for the benefit of another (the beneficiary);
He is the beneficiary of a generous trust set up by his father

Trust

Certainty based on past experience;
He wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists
He put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun

Trust

The trait of trusting; of believing in the honesty and reliability of others;
The experience destroyed his trust and personal dignity

Trust

A consortium of independent organizations formed to limit competition by controlling the production and distribution of a product or service;
They set up the trust in the hope of gaining a monopoly

Trust

Complete confidence in a person or plan etc;
He cherished the faith of a good woman
The doctor-patient relationship is based on trust

Trust

A trustful relationship;
He took me into his confidence
He betrayed their trust

Trust

Have confidence or faith in;
We can trust in God
Rely on your friends
Bank on your good education
I swear by my grandmother's recipes

Trust

Allow without fear

Trust

Be confident about something;
I believe that he will come back from the war

Trust

Expect and wish;
I trust you will behave better from now on
I hope she understands that she cannot expect a raise

Trust

Confer a trust upon;
The messenger was entrusted with the general's secret
I commit my soul to God

Trust

Extend credit to

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