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Definition of Apprehension
1. Noun. Fearful expectation or anticipation. "The student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Generic synonyms: Fear, Fearfulness, Fright
Specialized synonyms: Trepidation, Boding, Foreboding, Premonition, Presentiment, Suspense, Gloom, Gloominess, Somberness, Sombreness, Chill, Pall
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Apprehensive, Apprehensive, Dread, Dread
2. Noun. The cognitive condition of someone who understands. "He has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
Generic synonyms: Knowing
Specialized synonyms: Comprehension, Self-knowledge, Smattering, Appreciation, Grasp, Hold, Grasping, Hindsight, Brainstorm, Brainwave, Insight, Realisation, Realization, Recognition
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Savvy, Understand, Understand
3. Noun. Painful expectation.
Generic synonyms: Expectation, Outlook, Prospect
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Misgive
4. Noun. The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal). "The policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
Generic synonyms: Capture, Gaining Control, Seizure
Derivative terms: Apprehend, Arrest, Catch, Collar
Definition of Apprehension
1. n. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
Definition of Apprehension
1. Noun. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure. ¹
2. Noun. (legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest. ¹
3. Noun. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. ¹
4. Noun. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. ¹
5. Noun. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding. ¹
6. Noun. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Apprehension
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprehension
Literary usage of Apprehension
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"phenomenon which contains the condition of this necessary rule of apprehension
is the object. Let us now proceed to our task. ..."
2. The Constitution of the United States of America: With an Alphabetical by William Hickey, United States (1854)
"AN ACT for giving effect to certain treaty stipulations between this and foreign
governments, for the apprehension and delivering up of certain offenders. ..."
3. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1911)
"But next and chiefly it prepares the mind to gain a clearer apprehension of the
other sciences; and we doubtless know that in respect of such apprehension ..."
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