apprehension

[Ap`pre*hen·sion]

Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

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The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

Noun
the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

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the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

Noun
painful expectation

Noun
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

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The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.

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The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.

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Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

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The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.

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Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

Apprehension

Ap`pre*hen"sion , n. [L. apprehensio: cf. F. appr'82hension. See Apprehend.] 1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.

Simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.

4. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea. &hand; In this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue.

To false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension.

5. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension. 6. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

After the death of his nephew Caligula, Claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life.

Syn. -- Apprehension, Alarm. Apprehension springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; alarm arises from danger when announced as near at hand. Apprehension is calmer and more permanent; alarm is more agitating and transient.

The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.

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Usage Examples

Beauty is a relation, and the apprehension of it a comparison.

Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

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Other Usage Examples

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.

Much of today's public anxiety about science is the apprehension that we may forever be overlooking the whole by an endless, obsessive preoccupation with the parts.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.