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Apprehensiveness

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ap·pre·hen·sive  (pr-hnsv)
adj.
1. Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy. See Synonyms at afraid.
2. Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
appre·hensive·ly adv.
appre·hensive·ness n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.Apprehensivenessapprehensiveness - fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
apprehension, dread
fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)
trepidation - a feeling of alarm or dread
boding, foreboding, premonition, presentiment - a feeling of evil to come; "a steadily escalating sense of foreboding"; "the lawyer had a presentiment that the judge would dismiss the case"
suspense - apprehension about what is going to happen
gloom, gloominess, somberness, sombreness - a feeling of melancholy apprehension
pall, chill - a sudden numbing dread


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But whatever it was of apprehensiveness or uneasiness --to call it so --which I felt, yet whenever I came to look about me in the ship, it seemed against all warrantry to cherish such emotions.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
Topsy came up; her round, hard eyes glittering and blinking with a mixture of apprehensiveness and their usual odd drollery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher View in context
But he was in gloomy rebellion against the fact that his quick apprehensiveness foreshadowed to him, and when his eyes fell on Rosamond's blighted face it seemed to him that he was the more pitiable of the two; for pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion.
Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context
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