Definition of Immediate apprehension

1. Noun. Immediate intuitive awareness.

Exact synonyms: Immediacy
Generic synonyms: Intuition

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Literary usage of Immediate apprehension

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, William Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1885)
"parts ; but the beauty of nature brings an immediate apprehension of God to the Poet, not an argument; and an apprehension of God, not merely a perception ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"The immediate perception of sensuous or material objects by our senses is called sensuous or empirical intuition; the immediate apprehension of intellectual ..."

3. Aristotle and the Earlier Peripatetics by Eduard Zeller (1897)
"... the mediate process of forming conceptions by the gradual union of their several parts, but is a single immediate apprehension of intelligible reality, ..."

4. Pole and Czech in Silesia by James Alexander Roy (1921)
"There is no immediate apprehension of any serious outbreak, but the mining atmosphere is depressing and dull, as if a thunderstorm was brewing. ..."

5. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"In the first place, in immediate apprehension the apperception-mass is the concrete complex of experiences which having just occurred have not yet faded ..."

6. The Student's Handbook of Philosophy: Psychology by Benjamin Franklin Cocker (1882)
"(HAMILTON: "Discussions," p. 139, note.) The Object of intuition or immediate apprehension may be either esternal, internal, ..."

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