APPREHENSION
Definition:
- [noun] fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Synonyms: apprehensiveness, dread
- [noun] the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
Synonyms: understanding, discernment, savvy
- [noun] painful expectation
Synonyms: misgiving
- [noun] the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
Synonyms: arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
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Related Words:
- trepidation
- foreboding, premonition, presentiment, boding
- suspense
- gloom, gloominess, somberness
- chill, pall
- comprehension
- self-knowledge
- smattering
- appreciation, grasp, hold
- grasping
- hindsight
- insight, brainstorm, brainwave
- realization, realisation, recognition
