apprehension
Noun
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Fearful expectation or anticipation (synset 107536913)
"the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"is a type of: fear, fearfulness, fright - an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)subtypes:
- 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
same as: apprehensiveness, dread -
The cognitive condition of someone who understands (synset 105813483)
"he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"is a type of: knowing - a clear and certain mental apprehensionsubtypes:
- comprehension - an ability to understand the meaning or importance of something (or the knowledge acquired as a result)
- self-knowledge - an understanding of yourself and your goals and abilities
- smattering - a slight or superficial understanding of a subject
- appreciation, grasp, hold - understanding of the nature or meaning or quality or magnitude of something
- grasping - understanding with difficulty
- hindsight - understanding the nature of an event after it has happened
- brainstorm, brainwave, insight - the clear (and often sudden) understanding of a complex situation
- realisation, realization, recognition - coming to understand something clearly and distinctly
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Painful expectation (synset 105960433)
same as: misgiving
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The act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal) (synset 100089545)
"the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"is a type of: capture, gaining control, seizure - the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property
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