Synonyms:
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread
Meaning: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
Synonyms:
understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy
Meaning: the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
Usage examples
Ransford turned back with a sudden apprehension.
'OH, take care!' cried Anthea in an agony of apprehension.
The moon was now quite obscured, and I was under no apprehension of discovery.
Mr. Dunbar himself offered a reward for the apprehension of the guilty party, didn't he?"
I caught in Drake's swift glance the echo of my own thrill of apprehension for her sanity.
Brave as he was, there was something in this man's manner which made his skin creep with apprehension.
Now it is a wholly different thing to be truthful from duty and to be so from apprehension of injurious consequences.
It is remarkable that she seems to have had more than a mere apprehension, almost an assured foreboding, of what awaited her.
Eugenio's tone apparently threw, even to Miss Miller's own apprehension, a slightly ironical light upon the young girl's situation.
Taking Mississippi for purposes of illustration, it will be seen that there has never been the slightest ground for such an apprehension.