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absence (a-) of fear (bhaya) hence "fearlessness."
The Abhaya mudra is the open-handed gesture of dispelling fears which often appears in the iconography of deities such as Ganesha. Fear is a form of attachment, and the deity who dispells the fears of devotees indicates that the deity aids the devotee in removing attachments.