Apprehensive vs. Apprehensiveness — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Apprehensive and Apprehensiveness
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Definitions
Apprehensive
Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
He felt apprehensive about going home
Apprehensiveness
Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.
Apprehensive
Relating to perception or understanding.
Apprehensiveness
(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
Apprehensive
Anxious or fearful about the future; uneasy
Was apprehensive before the surgery.
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Apprehensiveness
The state of being apprehensive
Apprehensive
(Archaic) Capable of understanding and quick to apprehend.
Apprehensiveness
The quality or state of being apprehensive.
Apprehensive
Anticipating something with anxiety, fear, or doubt.
Apprehensiveness
Fearful expectation or anticipation;
The student looked around the examination room with apprehension
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Apprehensive
(obsolete) Perceptive; quick to learn; capable of understanding using one's intellect.
Apprehensive
Capable of apprehending, or quick to do so; apt; discerning.
It may be pardonable to imagine that a friend, a kind and apprehensive . . . friend, is listening to our talk.
Apprehensive
Knowing; conscious; cognizant.
A man that has spent his younger years in vanity and folly, and is, by the grace of God, apprehensive of it.
Apprehensive
Relating to the faculty of apprehension.
Judgment . . . is implied in every apprehensive act.
Apprehensive
Anticipative of something unfavorable' fearful of what may be coming; in dread of possible harm; in expectation of evil.
Not at all apprehensive of evils as a distance.
Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.
Apprehensive
Sensible; feeling; perceptive.
Thoughts, my tormentors, armed with deadly stings,Mangle my apprehensive, tenderest parts.
Apprehensive
Quick to understand;
A kind and apprehensive friend
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
In fear or dread of possible evil or harm;
Apprehensive for one's life
Apprehensive of danger
