Definition of Apprehensiveness

1. Noun. Fearful expectation or anticipation. "The student looked around the examination room with apprehension"


Definition of Apprehensiveness

1. n. The quality or state of being apprehensive.

Definition of Apprehensiveness

1. Noun. the state of being apprehensive ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Apprehensiveness

appreciatory
apprecihate
apprehend
apprehended
apprehender
apprehenders
apprehending
apprehends
apprehensibility
apprehensible
apprehensibly
apprehension
apprehensions
apprehensive
apprehensively
apprehensiveness (current term)
apprentice
apprentice(a)
apprenticeage
apprenticed
apprenticehood
apprenticehoods
apprenticelike
apprentices
apprenticeship
apprenticeships
apprenticing
apprentisage
apprentise
appress

Literary usage of Apprehensiveness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical Psychiatry by Allen Ross Diefendorf, Emil Kraepelin (1907)
"... indeed, it may even intensify it. Whenever morbid sadness is accompanied by an inner tension, the emotional state becomes one of apprehensiveness. ..."

2. Helps to Right Living by Katherine Hinchman Newcomb (1898)
"apprehensiveness. Live neither in the present nor in the future, but in the Eternal.— Light on the Path. IN all metaphysical teaching, concentration is the ..."

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