APPREHENSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does apprehensiveness mean? 

• APPREHENSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun APPREHENSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. fearful expectation or anticipation

  Familiarity information: APPREHENSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• APPREHENSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fearful expectation or anticipation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

apprehension; apprehensiveness; dread

Context example:

the student looked around the examination room with apprehension

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)

boding; foreboding; premonition; presentiment (a feeling of evil to come)

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)

 Context examples 

But his hugeness could not quite overcome his apprehensiveness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)