What is the opposite of fear?

Question

faith or courage ? why?

Answer 1

Faith actually can't overcome fear, but yeah...courage can definitely over throw our fear.

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Answer 2

We fear the opposite in us, so I think fear is its own opposite.

Answer 3

contentment

Answer 4

Only courage,.......

Faith is differrent thing,..... u cant fight with ur fear by faith u need courage for that ,.........

Ya bt mostly when we are in fear of something and we start saying names of god loudly and that fear gone by any of the ways then we thought it was just bcoz of faith we fought with our fear,.......

Bt its not like that it was our courage who helps us in our fear.

Answer 5

ummmmmm faith, because courage is just a label given by the fearful to the faithful.

Answer 6

courage.

you can do something that you wouldnt have been able to do if you were frightened of whatever it was.

Answer 7

courage

Because  one is bold enough  fearless  gallant dauntless and confident

Answer 8

neither , perfect love cast out fear.  

Answer 9

...courage.. to face the fear and eliminate it from your mind and actions...

Answer 10

Opposite of FEAR is to act as FEARLESS person.. http://my6thsense.blogspot.com

Answer 11

Freedom.

Faith and Courage are both strategies that move you from fear to freedom.

Consider a sphere with freedom being the center point.

Consider the surface of the sphere - many points - one of which is fear.

The radius leading from surface point of fear to the center point of freedom could be labeled - Faith or Courage

Answer 12

fearlessness

Answer 13

the opposite of faith is skepticism, doubt or distrust. fearlessness is the absence of fear, which is very similar to, but not quite the same as, the opposite of fear.

courage is not the opposite of fear... courage is the opposite of cowardice. specifically, they are opposed by their reaction/response to fear (to be courageous you MUST have fear, otherwise you are rash brave or fearless). while cowardice ignobly gives into fear and is controlled by it, courage heroically overcomes fear and controls its own destiny.

no one ever takes this seriously, but...

i believe someone already mentioned, the opposite of fear is love. these two are strongest, most prominent, most fundamental, and perhaps the oldest of all human emotion (that is, the other more complex and cerebral emotions developed and then branched out from these two which are more rudimentary and basic).

they are the only two that are span all three aspects of man's being: deeply rooted in physical gut instinct, expanded and exaggerated out in the emotional center, and continue to extend into the psychological level.

as basic animals, we make a single necessary distinction between what is "me" and what is "not me". at this level there are only two basic interactions i can have with the rest of existence, or any "not me" in particular. i can move myself towards something, or i can move myself away from something. all i can do is increace and decreace space, everything else is a particular derivation of this. all of live is really just a serieses of this most basic function, a motion toward (attraction) or away (repulsion), with a few variations at various levels. most often we govern how we move, but sometimes our emotions do, and we they need to, they can override anything else for control. its similar to the fight or flight scenario. but instead of fighting--a paniced, defensive attraction, usually considered an unfavorible circumstance-- there is a strong feeling of union and togetherness, comfortable and excited attraction -- love, either sexual or emotion, even spiritual.

basically these two emotion control your most basic of interactions with the entire rest of the world. Love causes you to dive foward, seeking union, of some type, at some level. Fear causes you to shrink back, striving for separation, of various kinds at various levels.

Answer 14

opposite of fear is faith...

Answer 15

courage. when you feel fear, you pray or you wish that you were not harmed. that's why faith comes from fear, it is not it´s opposite