apprehension
6
5.5
- noun
- /ˌæprɪˈhɛnʃən/
:
comprensión
- The apprehension displayed in her eyes showed she understood the seriousness of the situation.
- communication apprehension
- immediate apprehension
- apprehension of values
It's a form of skilled apprehension that can Orient students in critical ways to the contemporary world.
- It's a form of skilled apprehension that can Orient students in critical ways to the contemporary world.
- You're playing basketball, and the location of the hoop and the ball and your hand and the other players is just there for you as a single apprehension.
- Here Heidegger is is calling that straightforwardly observant apprehension of the simplest determinations of the being of beings.
- It, it reacts not following the apprehension of reason, but the apprehension of the sensitive parts that is our our sense organs, right?
- On Schaller's part in this analysis early on of how comparison figures into resantimont and the apprehension of values.
Examples
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And what does that say about our perception or apprehension of the human?
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Then, we see intuitive apprehension of engineering and design concepts, which receive their verification later through empirical testing.
Academic text (1995) -
So good is the first thing that falls into the apprehension of your practical reason.
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The data showed a significantly higher level of communication apprehension in the Japanese sample than in the American sample.
Academic text (2005) -
It's a form of skilled apprehension that can Orient students in critical ways to the contemporary world.
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Not only is this critical to relieving anxiety and apprehension, but it can begin to build self-confidence and high expectations.
Academic text (1997) -
Nonetheless, he refuses to embrace a skepticism that denies the possibilities for the apprehension of truth in the human intellect.
Academic text (2003) -
She felt a sense of apprehension as she approached the mysterious old house.
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His apprehension about the exam made him study harder than ever before.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
A natural ability to understand or do something
871
1.1
The ability to know what something means
73
3.6
Understanding of a subject or idea
38
6.6
The ability to notice and judge things clearly and wisely
1
6.2
To understand something difficult clearly and fully
Antonyms
243
1.6
When someone does not understand something correctly and this causes a problem
Compounds
How Clear
37
4.2
70
3.0
6
5.5
243
1.6
2
7.0
389
1.8
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Apprehension comes from Latin apprehendere, 'to seize', and was used as a picture of the mind 'taking hold' of an idea. So apprehension can mean 'understanding' — the mind has grasped a concept, much like when you comprehend something.