tendency to worry, nervousness; shrewdness, perceptiveness
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Apprehensiveness Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
(n.)
The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter. AboutThe quality or state of being apprehensive.
apprehensiveness
\ap`pre*hen"sive*ness\, n. the quality or state of being apprehensive.
Noun
1. fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"
(synonym) apprehension, dread
(hypernym) fear, fearfulness, fright
(hyponym) trepidation
