'apprehension' definitions:
Definition of 'apprehension'
(from WordNet)
noun
Fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension" [syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread]
noun
The cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect" [syn: understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy]
noun
Painful expectation [syn: apprehension, misgiving]
noun
The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar" [syn: apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody]
Synonyms of 'apprehension'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abduction,
- agitation,
- alarm,
- all-overs,
- angst,
- anxiety,
- anxiety hysteria,
- anxiety neurosis,
- anxious bench,
- anxious concern,
- anxious seat,
- anxiousness,
- apprehensiveness,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- boding,
- bust,
- caliber,
- cankerworm of care,
- capacity,
- capture,
- care,
- catch,
- catching,
- clairvoyance,
- cliff-hanging,
- collaring,
- command,
- comprehension,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conceptualization,
- concern,
- concernment,
- coup,
- deductive power,
- detention,
- diffidence,
- disquiet,
- disquietude,
- distress,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- disturbance,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dragnet,
- dread,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- esemplastic power,
- expectant waiting,
- faith,
- fancy,
- fear,
- forcible seizure,
- foreboding,
- forebodingness,
- foreknowledge,
- grab,
- grabbing,
- grasp,
- grip,
- half-belief,
- hold,
- idea,
- ideation,
- image,
- imago,
- impression,
- inquietude,
- integrative power,
- intellect,
- intellection,
- intellectual grasp,
- intellectual object,
- intellectual power,
- intellectualism,
- intellectuality,
- intelligence,
- intelligence quotient,
- IQ,
- kidnapping,
- knowledge,
- leeriness,
- malaise,
- mastery,
- memory-trace,
- mental age,
- mental capacity,
- mental grasp,
- mental image,
- mental impression,
- mental ratio,
- mentality,
- misdoubt,
- misgiving,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- mother wit,
- nab,
- nabbing,
- native wit,
- nervous strain,
- nervous tension,
- nervousness,
- netting,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- overanxiety,
- panic,
- perception,
- perturbation,
- pessimism,
- picking up,
- pickup,
- pinch,
- pins and needles,
- possession,
- power grab,
- power of mind,
- precognition,
- prehension,
- premonition,
- prenotion,
- presage,
- presentiment,
- pucker,
- Pyrrhonism,
- qualm,
- qualmishness,
- question,
- rationality,
- reasoning power,
- recept,
- reflection,
- reliance,
- representation,
- running in,
- sanity,
- savvy,
- scope of mind,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- seizure,
- seizure of power,
- self-doubt,
- sense,
- sentiment,
- shadow of doubt,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- snatch,
- snatching,
- solicitude,
- stew,
- strain,
- supposition,
- suspense,
- suspicion,
- suspiciousness,
- taking in,
- taking into custody,
- tension,
- theory,
- thinking power,
- thought,
- total skepticism,
- trouble,
- trust,
- uncertainty,
- understanding,
- unease,
- uneasiness,
- unquietness,
- upset,
- vexation,
- waiting,
- wariness,
- wisdom,
- wit,
- worry,
- zeal