apprehensiveness

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{n} the quality of being apprehensive
fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
The quality or state of being apprehensive
{i} tendency to worry, nervousness; shrewdness, perceptiveness
the state of being apprehensive
apprehensive
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect

More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.

apprehensive
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear

this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.

apprehensive
{a} fearful, sensible
Apprehensive
mentally upset over possible misfortune or danger etc; worried; "anxious parents"; "anxious about her job"; "not used to a city and anxious about small things"; "felt apprehensive about the consequences"
apprehensive
Sensible; feeling; perceptive
apprehensive
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger"
apprehensive
{s} worried, concerned
apprehensive
Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil
apprehensive
Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning
apprehensive
Someone who is apprehensive is afraid that something bad may happen. People are still terribly apprehensive about the future. worried or nervous about something that you are going to do, or about the future apprehensive about/of
apprehensive
quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
apprehensive
Relating to the faculty of apprehension
apprehensive
Knowing; conscious; cognizant
apprehensive
in fear or dread of possible evil or harm; "apprehensive for one's life"; "apprehensive of danger" quick to understand; "a kind and apprehensive friend"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
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