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adjective
- 1. causing an unpleasant feeling of fear or unease: informal "the creepy feelings one often gets in a strange house"
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1 day ago · Halloween, a holiday observed on October 31, the evening before All Saints’ Day. The celebration marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints and initiates the season of Allhallowtide. In much of Europe and most of North America, observance of Halloween is largely nonreligious.
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- Halloween is a holiday that marks the day before the Western Christian feast of All Saints, or All Hallows, and initiates the season of Allhallowti...
- Halloween is celebrated on October 31.
- Halloween may have developed partially from the pre-Christian holiday Samhain, which was celebrated in early medieval Ireland around November 1 as...
- Halloween is celebrated with pranks, parties, costumes, and trick-or-treating. People also often carve faces out of pumpkins.
- European immigrants to the United States in the 19th century brought Halloween customs with them and helped popularize the holiday. By the 1950s, t...
3 days ago · v. t. e. Fear is an intensely unpleasant primal emotion in response to perceiving or recognizing a danger or threat. Fear causes psychological changes that may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat.
5 days ago · Suicide is an intentional self-inflicted act that ends in death. Learn more about suicide, including prevalence, risks, signs, and prevention.
3 days ago · Schizophrenia is a mental disorder [17] characterized by reoccurring episodes of psychosis that are correlated with a general misperception of reality. [7] . Other common signs include hallucinations (typically hearing voices ), delusions (i.e., paranoia ), disorganized thinking and behavior, [10] and flat or inappropriate affect. [7] .
4 days ago · deceivingly. adverb. in a misleading way. synonyms: deceptively, misleadingly.
2 days ago · Intrusive thoughts are disturbing ideas or images that enter your consciousness without warning or invitation. The thoughts can occur as part of mental health conditions but not necessarily. The main characteristics are noted below and shall be expanded throughout this guide.
2 days ago · Psychopathy is a personality disorder of affective, interpersonal, and behavioral dimensions that begins in childhood and manifests as aggressive actions in early or late adolescence. Childhood trauma affects vulnerability to different forms of psychopathology and traits associated with it.
