unfear

English

Etymology

From un- +‎ fear.

Noun

unfear (uncountable)

1. Absence of fear; fearlessness.
   • 2009, John Hough, Seen the Glory: A Novel of the Battle of Gettysburg, page 163:

     It would have been easy now to run on home and beat him there but she did not. She let some seconds go by in which her unfear of him—if unfear it was—would proclaim itself, then turned, with her parasol and basket. “what is it,” she said.

Anagrams

• furane