😱 Meaning: What does the face screaming in fear emoji mean?

The 😱 emoji expresses fear, shock and awe, sometimes used to convey a state of intense dread in the face of a terrible or unexpected situation. But depending on the context, its meaning may vary phobia, unease, apprehension, excitement, stress. Here's everything you need to know about the 😱 emoji and its uses.

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😱 Emoji face screaming in fear: what are its different meanings?

The screaming face emoji is represented by a light blue forehead, white oval eyes with no pupils, wide open and no eyebrows, mouth gaping and screaming, hands on face.

• Everything points to shock, a exaggerated excitement after receiving terrible information.
• The face is even distorted on some message platforms to accentuate theimpression of dread, a fright.
• If you've ever seen the famous painter Edvard Munch's work entitled The Scream, you've probably seen a huge resemblance to this emoji.
• It is also associated with feelings of horror andintense excitementfor people meeting their idols, or stressing about an event...

In a few words, this emoji expresses:

• Shock ;
• The fear ;
• Fright ;
• Stunning;
• The apprehension ;
• The discomfort ;
• Phobia.
• Excitement.

During Halloween, it's associated with the pumpkin emoji 🎃 and its parody version takes the form of thescared cat emoji 🙀.

Here are some example sentences that can include this emoji:

1. I'm shocked 😱!
2. He was kidnapped 😱?
3. It gives me chills 😱.
4. I'm terrified of anything reptile 😱.
5. I just met my favorite star 😱!

Origin of the smiley

This emoji is from a 2007 and 2009 proposal, the details of which are presented below:

Proposal number 1

• Number : L2/07-257
• Last name : Working Draft Proposal for Encoding Emoji Symbols (Associated tables in ZIP file)
• Proposed by : Markus Scherer, Kat Momoi, Mark Davis,
• Year of proposal: 2007
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.257, 2007 HTML: EMOJI WD / No.257, 2007 ZIP: EMOJI WD TABLE

Proposal number 2

• Number : L2/09-026
• Last name : Emoji Symbols Proposed for New Encoding
• Proposed by : Kat Momoi, Markus Scherer, Mark Davis, Yasuo Kida, Peter Edberg (Apple Inc.), Darick Tong (Google Inc.)
• Year of proposal: 2009
• Number of emojis belonging to the same proposal: 753
• Case : No.026, 2009 PDF: R EMOJI PROPOSED / No.026, 2009 PDF: EMOJI PROPOSED

Proposal L2/07‑257(2007), L2/09‑026(2009) was approved by the Unicode Consortium and in 2015-06-02 it was released as Emoji version 1.0.

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Characteristics of the screaming smiley face

This emoji is currently one of the most used smileys on the web to convey a feeling of fear, whose characteristics are summarized in the table below:

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