The phrase "a persistent fear of" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe an ongoing or continuous fear regarding a specific subject or situation.
Example: "She has a persistent fear of heights that prevents her from enjoying outdoor activities."
Alternatives: "an ongoing fear of" or "a constant fear of".
Illness anxiety disorder is a persistent fear of having a grave medical illness.
In 2004, a persistent fear of terrorism has added a new wrinkle to the long conflict between freedom and order in great cities.
But for many here in Lyubertsy and other hardscrabble towns across Russia, any desire to live better is outweighed by a persistent fear of living worse.
PAGE 6 FEELING SECURE WITH PUTIN In Lyubertsy and other hardscrabble towns across Russia, residents say they will vote for Vladimir V. Putin in the upcoming presidential election because their desire to live better is outweighed by a persistent fear of living worse.
I had a persistent fear of death, paranoid everywhere I went and skeptical of everyone I met.
A persistent fear of being branded a "hawk" muzzles security discussions at the upper echelons of power.
In the treatment of insulin-dependent diabetes the risk of a fatal insulin overdose is a persistent fear to most patients.
And then a persistent fear that the day of terror could be just the beginning of something or even, G*d forbid, the end.
(A medical term for an abnormal, persistent fear of Father Christmas).
For centuries — from Goethe's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Faust" to "Frankenstein," "Jurassic Park," and beyond — people have harbored a persistent fear that some powerful form of life, manufactured by man with good intentions but excessive hubris, might one day slip beyond our control.
For centuries from Goethe's "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" and "Faust" to "Frankenstein," "Jurassic Park," and beyond people have harbored a persistent fear that some powerful form of life, manufactured by man with good intentions but excessive hubris, might one day slip beyond our control.
