NOUN
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fearful expectation or anticipation
the student looked around the examination room with apprehension
How To Use apprehensiveness In A Sentence
- You're driving mad with all this constant eye moving, and apprehensiveness, and such.
- Living without formal immigration status translates into a life of constant apprehensiveness and difficult decisions for unauthorized individuals. Timothy J. Steigenga: Why We Wrote Living "Illegal"
- This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions. Poise: How to Attain It
- In e mail program, neology a yellowish vintager apprehensiveness is intelligent to dripping a new brutalisation who caravanning be straightforwardness dolourous. Rational Review
- And further down the road, what we anticipate and apprehensiveness is that our great Indian neighbor could say ‘we are your friends’ and while saying that, deny us water, said Abida Hussain. Pakistan and India Talk Trade, But Historical Tensions Persist
- I feel a kind of apprehensiveness and terror -- yes, terror, which I cannot describe. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange
- But his hugeness could not quite overcome his apprehensiveness. Chapter 25
- John shrugged off his apprehensiveness, looking away.
- I have seen, with burning indignation, a malignant beast (I mean man) playing upon that tendency to a terrible apprehensiveness which is born with many men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862
- Patients experience overwhelming apprehensiveness and anxiety, fear of death, and coldness, followed by body weakness and dizziness.