"chronic fear" is a grammatically correct phrase and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe a long-term, persistent fear that one experiences. Example: Her chronic fear of flying prevented her from taking any vacations to faraway destinations.
However, even as the prize is claimed, Bartlett continues to probe his hero's chronic fear of the word "commitment".
A chronic fear I have of being run over while asleep in my tent had begun to flare up.
But he seemed to miss the point that the city's minority communities were in a state of chronic fear about careless or hostile police tactics.
Sylvia taunted him in front of them, playing on his chronic fear that she was cheating on him, a holdover from his bad first marriage.
And Mr. Eggers found himself suffering from a chronic fear of death, coupled with an overwhelming, panicked feeling that he had to keep everyone else from dying, too.
Their findings, published Thursday, Feb. 10 in the journal Neuron, may pave the way for more targeted treatment of chronic fear and anxiety disorders.
Thus she lives with two chronic fears: that the cops will take her away from her daughter, and that her daughter will learn her history and go away on her own.
Like a lot of chronic fears, hadephobia can be brought on by a real-life trauma, with the fear of hell attaching itself to real terror.
Anxiety, on the other hand, is chronic, generalized fear.
Because dance injuries tend to be chronic, dancers fear being pigeonholed as heading downhill, so some may rely heavily on prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Our chronic embarrassment or fear of embarrassment when it comes to our President may be a new phenomenon, but our lack of imagination is not.
