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Apprehension Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) |
Apprehension
(n.)
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
(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.)
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
(n.)
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
(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.)
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
| WordNet 2.0 |
apprehension
Noun
1. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
(synonym) apprehensiveness, dread
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(hyponym) trepidation
(derivation) apprehend, quail at
2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
(synonym) understanding, discernment, savvy
(hypernym) knowing
(hyponym) comprehension
(derivation) get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
3. painful expectation
(synonym) misgiving
(hypernym) expectation, outlook, prospect
(derivation) apprehend, quail at
4. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
(synonym) arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
(hypernym) capture, gaining control, seizure
(derivation) collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
Noun
1. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
(synonym) apprehensiveness, dread
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(hyponym) trepidation
(derivation) apprehend, quail at
2. the cognitive condition of someone who understands; "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"
(synonym) understanding, discernment, savvy
(hypernym) knowing
(hyponym) comprehension
(derivation) get the picture, comprehend, savvy, dig, grasp, compass, apprehend
3. painful expectation
(synonym) misgiving
(hypernym) expectation, outlook, prospect
(derivation) apprehend, quail at
4. the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal); "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"
(synonym) arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody
(hypernym) capture, gaining control, seizure
(derivation) collar, nail, apprehend, arrest, pick up, nab, cop
| Shakespeare Words |
APPREHENSION
opinion
opinion
| hEnglish - advanced version |
apprehension
apprehension
\ap`pre*hen"sion\ (&?;), n. [l. apprehensio: cf. f. appréhension. see apprehend.]
1. the act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. t. browne.
2. the act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
3. the act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
4. opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
note: in this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue. to false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension.
5. the faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
6. anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. after the death of his nephew caligula, claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life.
similar words(1)
immediate apprehension
apprehension
\ap`pre*hen"sion\ (&?;), n. [l. apprehensio: cf. f. appréhension. see apprehend.]
1. the act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. t. browne.
2. the act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
3. the act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception. simple apprehension denotes no more than the soul's naked intellection of an object.
4. opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
note: in this sense, the word often denotes a belief, founded on sufficient evidence to give preponderation to the mind, but insufficient to induce certainty; as, in our apprehension, the facts prove the issue. to false, and to be thought false, is all one in respect of men, who act not according to truth, but apprehension.
5. the faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
6. anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil. after the death of his nephew caligula, claudius was in no small apprehension for his own life.
similar words(1)
immediate apprehension
Apprehension Definition from Arts & Humanities Dictionaries & Glossaries
| English-Latin Online Dictionary |
apprehension
sollicitudo
sollicitudo
| Kant Glossary |
APPREHENSION
[A121] In the Deduction in A, Kant asserts that the imagination acts to synthesize perceptions (i.e., in the manifold of intuitions), and he alls this action of synthesis apprehension. "Since imagination has to bring the manifold of intuition into the form of an image, it must previously have taken the impressions [i.e., the perceptions] up into its activity, that is, have apprehended them". This apprehensions has affinity, and thus "fits into a connected whole of human knowledge". [A177/B219] The synthesis of apprehension is the first ordering of intuitions in a manifold, and in this synthesis they are not ordered by the categories in the ways prescribed in the Analogies: "In experience...perceptions come together only in accidental order, so that no necessity determining their connection is or can be revealed by the perceptions themselves. For apprehension is only a placing together of the manifold of empirical intuition; and we can find in it no representation of any necessity which determines the appearances thus combined to have connected existence in time and space". It is an important Kantian thesis that apprehension is always successive.
[A121] In the Deduction in A, Kant asserts that the imagination acts to synthesize perceptions (i.e., in the manifold of intuitions), and he alls this action of synthesis apprehension. "Since imagination has to bring the manifold of intuition into the form of an image, it must previously have taken the impressions [i.e., the perceptions] up into its activity, that is, have apprehended them". This apprehensions has affinity, and thus "fits into a connected whole of human knowledge". [A177/B219] The synthesis of apprehension is the first ordering of intuitions in a manifold, and in this synthesis they are not ordered by the categories in the ways prescribed in the Analogies: "In experience...perceptions come together only in accidental order, so that no necessity determining their connection is or can be revealed by the perceptions themselves. For apprehension is only a placing together of the manifold of empirical intuition; and we can find in it no representation of any necessity which determines the appearances thus combined to have connected existence in time and space". It is an important Kantian thesis that apprehension is always successive.
| Phobia |
Tremophobia
Fear of trembling
Fear of trembling
Apprehension Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
| Wikipedia English - The Free Encyclopedia |
Apprehension
Apprehension can refer to:
- apprehension (understanding), awareness or understanding of something by the mind.
- apprehension (fear), a fearful emotion.
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