The phrase "a generalised fear" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a broad or widespread sense of fear that is not specific to a particular situation or object.
Example: "In times of uncertainty, a generalised fear can permeate society, affecting people's daily lives and decisions."
Alternatives: "a widespread fear" or "a pervasive fear".
His Victorian strictness instilled in Said "a deep sense of generalised fear", which he spent most of his life trying to overcome.
But even generalised fear usually finds a target.
Or it is a generalised, defensive fear: globalisation, say, or the arrival of Europe's single currency, are changing the economic landscape and making firms' lives more uncertain creating a strong incentive for the insecure to leap into bed with one another, the better to prevent their beds from being taken away altogether.
Overly ambitious conceptions of active ageing are problematic, as they may generate a form of 'new ageism', in which the generalised fear of ageing is replaced by fear of ageing with disability and in which dependent older adults suffer from discrimination (Angus and Reeve 2006).
Stated differently, most studies focus on trait-like or generalised-context forms of communication apprehension the former being an enduring, global disposition of a person, the latter generalised fears with regard to certain communication settings (Gardner et al. 2005; McCroskey 2012).
There are more generalised fears about what will happen once whole swaths of London have been hollowed out below ground.
The fact that our reaction is much the same as to Bulgaria and Romania suggests that public attitudes are shaped more by generalised fears than by personal experience.
A generalised dread took hold, the fear of an invisible poison spread through air, through water – even, it was said, through mothers' milk.
Even when the perception of security is based on the impressions and fears from a surveyed population, with these feelings representing a generalised behaviour in the population, the perception of security might be considered an attribute of the region rather than the impressions and fears of some of its individuals, hence the validity of a regional approach to the perception of security.
Of those I spoke to, their reasons are largely as you'd expect: fears about the EU superseding British law, concerns about unfettered immigration and – most frequently – a generalised sense that we needed to "take back control".
