Other forms: horrors
Horror is a feeling of shock and dread. To my horror, a look of horror, the horrors of war.
It differs from fear in looking backward or outward rather than at a threat to you: horror is what you feel at what has happened. It also names the genre, and the Latin behind it means a bristling of the skin.
1nounhorrorA feeling of shock and dread.
“To her horror, she realised she had left the baby's bag on the bus.”
horror is a feeling.
Latin horror means a bristling or shuddering, from horrere, to stand on end.
Proto-Indo-European
*ǵʰers-
Latin
horror — a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror
Old French
horror
Middle English
horer
English, today
horror
Built from
From Middle English horer, horrour, from Old French horror, from Latin horror (“a bristling, a shaking, trembling as with cold or fear, terror”), from horrere (“to bristle, shake, be terrified”). Displaced native ōga.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA