Word
Apprehension
How many syllables?
4 Syllables
How it's divided?
ap-pre-hen-sion
Definition
- n. - The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as,
the hand is an organ of apprehension.
- n. - The act of seizing or taking by legal process;
arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
- n. - The act of grasping with the intellect; the
contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any
judgment; intellection; perception.
- n. - Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
- n. - The faculty by which ideas are conceived;
understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
- n. - Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust
or fear at the prospect of future evil.
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