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APPREHENSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Fearful expectation or anticipation
Example:
the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
Synonyms:
apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("apprehensiveness" is a kind of...):
fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apprehensiveness"):
trepidation (a feeling of alarm or dread)
boding; foreboding; premonition; presentiment (a feeling of evil to come)
suspense (apprehension about what is going to happen)
gloom; gloominess; somberness; sombreness (a feeling of melancholy apprehension)
chill; pall (a sudden numbing dread)
Derivation:
apprehensive (in fear or dread of possible evil or harm)
apprehensive (mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc)
