Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter.apprehensionap‧pre‧hen‧sion /ˌæprɪˈhenʃən/ ●○○ noun 
a feeling of apprehension I woke before the alarm, filled with apprehension.2[uncountable] formal the act of apprehending a criminal SYN arrest3[uncountable] old-fashioned understanding
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
- A $100,000 reward is being offered for information leading to apprehension of the killer.
- Dad has some apprehensions about having surgery.
- Diplomats watched the events with growing apprehension.
- The discussion centered on our apprehension of the nature of God.
- Authorities then use the profiles to identify suspects and to attempt to elicit confessions after their apprehension.
- He noticed that the veins were standing out on Michael's forehead and against his will felt a surge of apprehension.
- I felt a peculiar apprehension, and sensed the woodland spirits of which Mme Guérigny lived in awe.
- Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension, and panic.
- No evidence emerged to justify the apprehension of the authorities, but this did not trouble the court.
- She has repeatedly emphasized that her novels are linguistically self-conscious explicitly in order to translate the apprehension of the problematic area of language.
- The Department of Agriculture was apparently unconcerned about the growing apprehension.
- What is important to me is the apprehension of the person or persons who killed our son.
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter.COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSVERB
1[countable, uncountable] anxiety about the future, especially about dealing with something unpleasant or difficult SYN anxiety: Fay felt a chill of fear as she watched Max go off with her daughter.· I felt a peculiar apprehension, and sensed the woodland spirits of which Mme Guérigny lived in awe.· Moving to-ward them, he felt a chill of apprehension, and panic.· So why did she now feel this frightening apprehension - a deep, numbing fear of what lay ahead?· On a bike when encountering hikers, you feel the immediate apprehension and paranoia, even from a distance.
a feeling of apprehension I woke before the alarm, filled with apprehension.2[uncountable] formal the act of apprehending a criminal SYN arrest3[uncountable] old-fashioned understanding