"b" <nospam.bengabenga@caramail.com> wrote in message 
news:418751d4$0$3568$8fcfb975@news.wanadoo.fr...
>> Ya, but the connontations are different.  So they aren't true synonyms.
>
> the idea of a synonym isn't being identical, having the same exact 
> connotations, intensity, but belonging to the same semantic group, in this 
> case fear terror like fright, horror etc...
> there are also "related words" ( apprehension, timidity angst...) but fear 
> and terror are more than related, they're synonyms.

I wasn't arguing they aren't synonyms.  Just that they had different 
connotations.  That's why I added the qualifier.  I was just trying to argue 
that they aren't completely interchangeable.

Rykk