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单词 apprehension
释义 ap·pre·hen·sion
\ˌ ̷ ̷ ̷ ̷ˈhenchən\ noun
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English apprehensioun, from Late Latin apprehension-, apprehensio, from Latin apprehensus (past participle of apprehendere) + -ion-, -io -ion
1.
 a. obsolete : the act of learning
 b. : the faculty of grasping with the intellect : understanding
  < a man of dull apprehension >
 c. : the act of grasping with the intellect : intellection, perception
 d.
  (1) : the result of apprehending mentally : opinion, conception
   < according to popular apprehension >
  (2) : notion, sentiment, idea
   < to mistrust one's own apprehensions >
 e. philosophy : the act of mentally grasping or of bringing before the mind; specifically : a perception that is comparatively simple, direct, and immediate and has as its object something considered to be directly and nondiscursively understandable; broadly : an intellectual awareness : a relatively simple or unreflective idea, opinion, or belief
 f. in traditional logic : that one of the three operations of thought by which one grasps what is expressed by a term or name — contrasted with judgment and reasoning
 g. psychology : the observing of an object as a whole without distinguishing its parts
2. : the taking by legal, especially criminal, process : arrest
 < apprehension of a felon >
3. : anticipation especially of unfavorable things : suspicion or fear especially of future evil
Synonyms:
 foreboding, misgiving, presentiment: apprehension may refer to a fear, sometimes vague, that obsesses and keeps one anxious about the future
  < peasants who have survived a famine will be perpetually haunted by memory and apprehension — Bertrand Russell >
  < daily apprehension lest the wholesome sons and daughters whom they commit to a college return to them as brazen fools without culture — W.L.Sullivan >
  foreboding applies to oppressive anticipatory fear, often ill-grounded, ill-defined, or superstitious
  < my wife was curiously silent throughout the drive and seemed oppressed with forebodings of evil — H.G.Wells >
  < there was a sadness and constraint about all persons that day, which filled Mr. Esmond with gloomy forebodings — W.M.Thackeray >
  misgiving applies to sudden uneasy fear and worried doubt rather than due anxiety or dread
  < a misgiving arose within him that such dread experiences would revive the old danger — Charles Dickens >
  < his self-confidence had given place to a misgiving that he had been making a fool of himself — G.B.Shaw >
  presentiment indicates a shadowy, almost mystical, intuitive perception of some coming event, often unpleasant and fearful
  < this unfortunate accident has upset me. I have a horrible presentiment that something of the kind may happen to me — Oscar Wilde >
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