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apprehension Definition

ap·pre·hen·sion (-hen′s̸hən)

noun

  1. capture or arrest
  2. mental grasp; perception or understanding
  3. a judgment or opinion
  4. an anxious feeling of foreboding; dread

Etymology: ME apprehencioun < LL apprehensio: see apprehend

apprehension Synonyms

apprehension

n.

  1. Foreboding

    trepidation, dread, misgiving; see anxiety, fear 2.

  2. Understanding

    comprehension, grasp, perception, perspicacity; see judgment 1.

  3. Arrest

    capture, seizure, detention; see arrest 1.

  4. Estimate

    opinion, conclusion, belief; see judgment 3.

apprehension Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • offender: Targeted policing can be employed to maximize apprehension of persistent offenders.
  • truth: We suffer too from concupiscence of the mind, where our mental capacity and apprehension of the truth become clouded or enslaved to sin.
  • reality: Language was considered redundant or deficient, a stifling convention in the way of our apprehension of reality.
  • danger: At the same time no apprehension of danger seems to have been entertained.
  • criminal: It was also the first time that wireless was used in the apprehension of a criminal.
  • consequence: The difference came to be known at court, and there were apprehensions of ill consequences.

Converse of object

  • express: One of his attendants expressed an apprehension, that the King would get wet.
  • grow: The corporate minutes of De Beers on June 20, 1946, reflect this growing apprehension.
  • prevent: An acceptance of the strike prevents apprehension and an increase of the tension in your body that is caused by it.
  • cause: This is what causes most apprehension in the West.
  • feel: Crow could feel the apprehension in the toner's confines.
  • write: Second, correlations between speaking and writing apprehension were rather low.

Adjective modifier

  • slight: Lt Col Sharples said: " There was a buzz of excitement and slight apprehension among the lads.
  • reasonable: The issue is whether the violence used in self-defense was proportional to the harm inflicted and to the reasonable apprehension of future harm.
  • widespread: There is also a widespread apprehension that anything missing from the conference agenda will be at a disadvantage in the years to come.
  • initial: However, initial apprehension is soon overcome by the children's excitement.
  • intellectual: In other words, intellectual apprehension of harmony brings about virtue.
  • constant: But beneath that calm exterior nine thousand people live in constant apprehension of impending calamity.

Preposition: on

  • part: In Gildas' allegations, we may detect some apprehensions on the part of the rulers concerning this situation.

Noun used with modifier

  • evaluation: The negative effect of evaluation apprehension reduces the quantity of ideas produced in groups.
apprehension Quotes

Perhapsthemost sublimeinsights oftheJewishprophets and the Christian gospel is the knowledge that since perfection is love, the apprehension of perfection is at once the means of seeing one's imperfections and the consoling assurance of grace which makes this realization bearable. This ultimate paradox of high religion is not an invention of theologians or priests. It is constantly validated by the most searching experiences of life.

—Niebuhr, Reinhold

We are like icebergs in the ocean: one-eighth part consciousness and the rest submerged beneath the surface of articulate apprehension.

—Gerhardie,William Alexander

   Religion issomething which stands beyond, behind, and within the passing flux of immediate things; something which is real, and yet waiting to be realized; something which is a remote possibility, and yet the greatest of present facts; something that gives meaning to all that passes, and yet eludes apprehension; something whose possession is the final good, and yet is beyond all reach; something which is the ultimate ideal, and the hopeless quest.

—Whitehead, Alfred North