apprehension

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   anxiety or fear about the future; the act of arresting

   She felt growing apprehension as the exam approached.

From Latin apprehensio ('a seizing, grasping'), from apprehendere ('to grasp, seize'), from ad- and prehendere ('to seize'); the sense of anxiety arose from 'mental grasping' of a feared event.

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