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n. Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread.

n. The act of seizing or capturing; arrest.

n. The ability to apprehend or understand; understanding.

n. The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.

n. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

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

n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

n. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.

n. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

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

n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding.

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

n. The act of seizing or taking hold of; prehension: as, the hand is the organ of apprehension.

n. The act of arresting or seizing by legal process; arrest; seizure: as, the thief, after his apprehension, escaped.

n. A laying hold by the mind; mental grasp; the act or faculty of perceiving anything by the senses;

n. of learning or becoming familiar with anything;

n. of forming an image in the imagination (the common meaning in English for three centuries, and the technical meaning in the Kantian theory of cognition);

n. of catching the meaning of anything said or written;

n. of simple apprehension (which see, below);

n. of attention to something present to the imagination.

n. Anticipation of adversity; dread or fear of coming evil; distrust of the future.

n. Alarm, Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm), disquiet, dread, anxiety, misgiving, solicitude, nervousness, fearfulness.

n. painful expectation

n. fearful expectation or anticipation

n. the cognitive condition of someone who understands

n. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

"He lifted and dropped his feet with the lithe softness of a cat, and from time to time glanced to right and to left as if in apprehension of some flank attack."

expectation    outlook    prospect    gaining control    capture    seizure   

simple apprehension    implicit apprehension    synthesis of apprehension   

alarm    seizure    arrest    intellection    perception    opinion    conception    sentiment    idea    understanding   

Ascension    Laurentian    ascension    attention    comprehension    condescension    contention    convention    detention    dimension   

anxiety    dread    uneasiness    fear    suspicion    anger    uncertainty    sadness    curiosity    dismay