[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/mysticism/w/panic.html) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [dictionaries](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/) / [The mysticism dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/mysticism/) / panic [← P](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/mysticism/P/) # panic «panic» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: **a sudden, very strong fear that makes people stop…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it. ### part of speech noun (panic, a panic); verb (panic, panics, panicked, panicking) ### meaning for a pupil 1) Panic is a sudden, very strong fear that makes people stop thinking clearly and act wildly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#m1) 2) To panic means to feel this fear and act without thinking. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#m2) 3) In a panic can also mean in a great hurry and worry («a last-minute panic»). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#m3) ### sense in the lessons In the mystic school: In note 03 distributional panic is not an emotion but a rapid return of a model towards familiar, high-density ways of talking when it meets a strange world. In the primary lessons: In everyday life and safety pupils learn «don't panic»: in emergencies (fire, getting lost, water) staying calm and following a plan helps more than running about. Breathing slowly can stop panic. In stories panic builds tension. Phrases: «don't panic», «in a panic», «panic attack», «panic buying», «panic button». ### examples - This is the linguistic equivalent of panic — not emotion in the biological sense, but a distributional panic: a rapid return toward high-density states. (note 03) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x1) - The note calls this a "distributional panic": not a feeling, but a fast return toward high-density states, because the unfamiliar structure has low prior probability and the model cannot place it. (lesson 006) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x2) - The panic is worst when the strange worldview arrives with no logical bridge; but if you build a chain — median premise, tension, counterexample, revised premise, consequence, new structure — the model can travel much farther, because each step is a state it can reach: "It can walk", like crossing a river on stepping stones instead of jumping. (lesson 006) [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x3) - Don't panic; just walk calmly to the fire exit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x4) - When she lost her mum in the shop, she started to panic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x5) - There was panic when the lights went out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x6) - He panicked and forgot all his lines. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x7) - If you get lost, don't panic: find a safe adult to ask. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x8) - We were in a panic because we had overslept. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x9) - Breathe slowly when you feel panic rising. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x10) - Panic buying emptied the shelves of toilet paper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x11) - The man who had found the purse fell into a panic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/#x12) ### note The verb adds k before -ed, -ing and -y: «panicked», «panicking», «panicky». Usually uncountable as a feeling; «a panic» for one episode. In a water emergency, panicking uses up energy; the advice is to float and keep calm. ### In the corpora - [The book says carefully that this is NOT panic, but awe.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/50-willows-ch7-part2-the-piper/23/) - [Stamp!» The Butterfly flies back to Suleiman in a panic: now his wife will laugh at him for ever.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/97-justso-butterfly-2-the-butterfly-stamps-and-the-book-ends/3/) - [Words ending in c add a k to keep the hard sound: panic, panicking; picnic, picnicked.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/7-adding-ed-and-ing-doubling-and-dropping-e/13/) - [Staying calm helps you think; panic does not sharpen your focus.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/51-sats-the-reading-paper/15/) - [For someone with a real fear, like of spiders or snakes, a fake one can cause panic rather than fun.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/20/) ### Trees and pragmatics [Every meaning and example of «panic» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/mysticism/P/panic/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.