Emily Dickinson Lexicon

FEAR-FUL-NESS, n.

1. Timorousness; timidity.
2. State of being afraid; awe; dread. A third thing that makes a government despised, is fearfulness of, and mean compliances with, bold popular offenders. South.
3. Terror; alarm; apprehension of evil. Fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Is. xxxiii.