noun. Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread. synonym: fear.

noun. The act of seizing or capturing; arrest.

noun. The ability to apprehend or understand; understanding.

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

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

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

noun. of learning or becoming familiar with anything;

noun. 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);

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

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

noun. of attention to something present to the imagination.

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

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

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

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

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

noun. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

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

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

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

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

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

noun. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

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

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

noun. painful expectation

noun. fearful expectation or anticipation

noun. the cognitive condition of someone who understands

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

"Here in the Persian Gulf, apprehension is off the charts."

implicit apprehension  simple apprehension  synthesis of apprehension  

capture  expectation  gaining control  outlook  prospect  

Ascension  Laurentian  ascension  attention  comprehension  

anger  anxiety  curiosity  dismay  dread  

IQ  Pyrrhonism  abduction  agitation  alarm