fearthought

== English == === Etymology === Blend of fear +‎ forethought. Coined by Horace Fletcher as part of New Thought Movement at the turn of the twentieth century. === Noun === fearthought (uncountable) Excessive and unhealthy apprehensiveness; unnecessary fearfulness. 1897, Horace Fletcher, Happiness as found in Forethought minus Fearthought (Chicago & New York: Stone), pp. 24–25: To assist in the analysis of fear, and in the denunciation of its expressions, I have coined the word fearthought to stand for the unprofitable element of forethought, and have defined the word 'worry' as fearthought in contradistinction to forethought. I have also defined fearthought as the self-imposed or self-permitted suggestion of inferiority, in order to place it where it really belongs, in the category of harmful, unnecessary, and therefore not respectable things.