Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being apprehensive. Readiness to understand.
- noun Fearfulness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being apprehensive.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun the state of being
apprehensive
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun fearful expectation or anticipation
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Examples
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TUCKER: In that song, "Long White Dress," the narrator recalls apprehensiveness about getting married.
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I have seen, with burning indignation, a malignant beast (I mean man) playing upon that tendency to a terrible apprehensiveness which is born with many men.
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This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions.
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I feel a kind of apprehensiveness and terror -- yes, terror, which I cannot describe.
Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
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Living without formal immigration status translates into a life of constant apprehensiveness and difficult decisions for unauthorized individuals.
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This apprehensiveness became a mania which controlled them even in their sleep.
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And further down the road, what we anticipate and apprehensiveness is that our great Indian neighbor could say ‘we are your friends’ and while saying that, deny us water, said Abida Hussain.
Pakistan and India Talk Trade, But Historical Tensions Persist
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But his hugeness could not quite overcome his apprehensiveness.
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This apprehensiveness became a mania which controlled them even in their sleep.
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Living without formal immigration status translates into a life of constant apprehensiveness and difficult decisions for unauthorized individuals.
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