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Definition of Apprehensiveness
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
Definition of Apprehensiveness
1. n. The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Definition of Apprehensiveness
1. Noun. the state of being apprehensive ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprehensiveness
Literary usage of Apprehensiveness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Clinical Psychiatry by Allen Ross Diefendorf, Emil Kraepelin (1907)
"... indeed, it may even intensify it. Whenever morbid sadness is accompanied by
an inner tension, the emotional state becomes one of apprehensiveness. ..."
2. Helps to Right Living by Katherine Hinchman Newcomb (1898)
"apprehensiveness. Live neither in the present nor in the future, but in the
Eternal.— Light on the Path. IN all metaphysical teaching, concentration is the ..."
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