APPREHENSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Fearful expectation or anticipation

Example:

the student looked around the examination room with apprehension

Synonyms:

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Hypernyms ("apprehensiveness" is a kind of...):

fear; fearfulness; fright (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "apprehensiveness"):

trepidation (a feeling of alarm or dread)

suspense (apprehension about what is going to happen)

gloom; gloominess; somberness; sombreness (a feeling of melancholy apprehension)

chill; pall (a sudden numbing dread)

Derivation:

apprehensive (in fear or dread of possible evil or harm)

apprehensive (mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc)