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What is the noun for scary?

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scare
  1. A minor fright.
  2. A cause of slight terror; something that inspires fear or dread.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “That movie, The Sixth Sense, gave me an old-fashioned scare.”
      “When he broke out in rashes, it gave his mother a measles scare.”
scareware
  1. (computing) Software that attempts to scare the user into compliance, as by displaying false warnings of virus infection.
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    1. “On average, Sophos identifies five new scareware websites every day, with the figure peaking at over 20 per day on occasion.”
      “This past weekend, even the New York Times was duped into running a scareware ad on their site.”
      “The people behind the adverts encourage Apple Macintosh users to download a piece of scareware called MacSweeper.”
scaredness
  1. The quality of being scared; fear; timidity.
scary
  1. Barren land having only a thin coat of grass.
scarer
  1. One who, or that which, scares.
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    1. “The letter from a Raja is spotted with gold-leaf as a preservative, partly to divert the glance of fascination and partly because gold is a scarer of demons...”
      “She has high hopes but I'm concerned that it will clash somehow with the ultrasonic cat scarer that's still going strong out in the garden on a stick.”
      “Sound devices are loud and disturb people in the area, however, so take your neighbors' proximity into consideration when choosing an acoustical scarer.”
scariness
  1. The property of being scary.
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    1. “Indeed, the frequency, vividness, and scariness of her dreams increased when Yani was faced with an opportunity to begin a romantic relationship.”
      “This film is a master class in suggesting scariness when there isn't anything actually scary going on.”
      “In a fit of madness I decided to try it out for myself and I can vouch for its scariness.”
scarers
  1. plural of scarer
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    1. “New moves will be made this weekend by divers armed with sonar scarers used on fish farms to return him to the wild.”
      “However, the National Farmers' Union said bird scarers were a necessary part of country life.”
      “Fireworks can also be used in an agricultural capacity as bird scarers.”
scares
  1. plural of scare
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Pat and I believe that it is the float impacting too deeply that scares fish rather than the splash factor.”
      “When a enemy comes up to the frilled lizard, it puts out the frill which scares the enemy away.”
      “The whole history of the US, indeed, is punctuated with scares, crazes and occasional mass hysteria.”
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