Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS VI SECTION II 3. PROSPECTIVE AFFECTIONS


858. Hope -- N. hope, hopes; desire &c 865; fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith &c (belief) 484; affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.

859. [Absence, want or loss of hope.] Hopelessness -- N. hopelessness &c adj.; despair, desperation; despondency, depression &c (dejection) 837; pessimism, pessimist; Job's comforter; bird of bad omen, bird of ill omen.

860. Fear -- N. fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness &c adj.; solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze [U.S.] ; mistrust &c (doubt) 485; suspicion, qualm; hesitation &c (irresolution) 605.

861. [Absence of fear.] Courage -- N. courage, bravery, valor; resoluteness, boldness &c adj.; spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity; contempt of danger, defiance of danger; derring-do; audacity; rashness &c 863; dash; defiance &c 715; confidence, self-reliance.

862. [Excess of fear.] Cowardice -- N. cowardice, pusillanimity; cowardliness &c adj.; timidity, effeminacy.

863. Rashness -- N. rashness &c adj.; temerity, want of caution, imprudence, indiscretion; overconfidence, presumption, audacity.

864. Caution -- N. caution; cautiousness &c adj.; discretion, prudence, cautel † , heed, circumspection, calculation, deliberation.

865. Desire -- N. desire, wish, fancy, fantasy; want, need, exigency.

866. Indifference -- N. indifference, neutrality; coldness &c adj.; anaphrodisia † ; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy † , anorexia, inappetency † ; apathy &c (insensibility) 823; supineness &c (inactivity) 683; disdain &c 930; recklessness &c 863; inattention &c 458.

867. Dislike -- N. dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency † .

868. Fastidiousness -- N. fastidiousness &c adj.; nicety, hypercriticism, difficulty in being pleased, friandise [Fr.] , epicurism, omnia suspendens naso [Lat.] .

869. Satiety -- N. satiety, satisfaction, saturation, repletion, glut, surfeit; cloyment † , satiation; weariness &c 841.