The phrase "a pervasive fear of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a widespread or deeply ingrained fear regarding a particular subject or issue.
Example: "In today's society, there is a pervasive fear of losing privacy due to the rise of technology."
Alternatives: "an overwhelming fear of" or "a widespread anxiety about".
It has also given us online status anxiety, a pervasive fear of missingout and may be affecting our mental health.
Certain of classical music's difficulties are self-created: ossified concert norms, brain-dead programming, a pervasive fear of the new.
And they are motivated by a pervasive fear of Lyme and by increasingly threatening pathogens, such as babesia and erlichiosis, that are carried by the same black-legged tick that transmits the Lyme bacterium.
Arab governments have inverted this refrain: by appropriating national energy resources and other rents, they neatly absolve themselves of the need to levy heavy taxes and therefore to win the consent of the governed.The devil you knowA less obvious source of state power is a pervasive fear of what might happen in its absence.
A22 SCIENCE/HEALTH SARS Fear Grips Bay Area Along the West Coast, as well as in other parts of the country like New York City, a pervasive fear of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, has taken hold, despite the fact that no one in the United States has died from it.
They have been described in terms of a pervasive fear of the possible negative consequences of being responsible and answerable; of being required to produce decidability in the face of the un-decidable (Power 2007).
They talked of a pervasive fear among women: fear of their partner, fear of the consequences of disclosing and fear of the unknown.
Successive central governments have also deliberately hollowed out the army because of a pervasive fear it could stage a coup.
Clouding all of it is a pervasive fear among arts groups that in difficult economic times they will be considered dispensable.
For a start, the once pervasive fear of a hated regime is gone.
"They develop a much more pervasive fear of going out of their home," she said.
