"generalized fear" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to describe a fear or anxiety that is not specific to any one situation or thing. For example, "He suffers from generalized fear and anxiety in his day-to-day life."
"Yeezus" may be ugly but it doesn't give me a feeling of generalized fear or hatred (except of West himself).
Many poems postdate 9/11; a generalized fear of terrorism darkens the background against which the inexplicable is "always cropping up".
But, he added, "I don't want to accept some generalized fear about pedophilia as a substitute for careful evaluation of what we should expect from this particular individual and how he should be treated".
"It's tapping into a generalized fear that people have about the state of the world they are living in," said Scott Rudin, the veteran producer who has credits on both "No Country for Old Men" and "There Will Be Blood".
At a time when Americans are plagued by a generalized fear of an invisible enemy, the latest Internet rumor warns specifically of a terrorist attack on a mall on Halloween.
For all of this to work, there are a few mental hurdles that car owners need to clear besides generalized fear of strangers and whatever cooties they leave on the steering wheel.
It may be impossible, however, to fully counteract the shock of going from a 24-hour state of generalized fear-apprehension-paranoia, sustained for a year through wartime, to evenings at home on the La-Z-Boy, asked to fulfill the requirements of love and tenderness needed to sustain a family.
Last month, colleagues and I published what I consider a very important paper in the American Journal of Public Health, indicating that tens of thousands of relatively young women who have undergone hysterectomy are dying needlessly because of an over-generalized fear of hormone replacement.
In an article published in the Journal of Anxiety Disorders, the researchers write, "Work-related anxieties can manifest in the form of phobia, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, fears of insufficiency, or hypochondrial anxiety in relation to work, working conditions, or colleagues and superiors".
This generalized anxiety and fear is translated into a specific one, he argues: Islam, "a box in which everyone expresses their fears".
About the political activities of his parents, Mr. Boudin writes: "Certainly violence is illegitimate when it targets civilians or intends to cause generalized or widespread fear, but my parents never did either of those".
