apprehension

Plural: apprehensions

Noun

• fearful expectation or anticipation
  • "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
• the cognitive condition of someone who understands
• painful expectation
• the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)
• The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
• The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
• Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.

Synonyms

apprehensiveness, arrest, catch, collar, discernment, dread, misgiving, pinch, savvy, taking into custody, understanding, alarm, apprehension, awareness, qualm, sense, trepidation

Antonyms

inapprehension

Related Words

sense