apprehension (n.)
- abduction
- agitation
- alarm
- angst
- anxiety
- anxiousness
- apprehensiveness
- arrest
- boding
- bust
- caliber
- capacity
- capture
- care
- catch
- catching
- clairvoyance
- command
- comprehension
- conceit
- concept
- conception
- conceptualization
- concern
- coup
- detention
- diffidence
- disquiet
- disquietude
- distress
- distrust
- distrustfulness
- disturbance
- doubt
- doubtfulness
- dragnet
- dread
- dubiety
- dubiousness
- faith
- fancy
- fear
- foreboding
- foreknowledge
- grab
- grasp
- grip
- hold
- idea
- ideation
- image
- imago
- impression
- inquietude
- intellect
- intellection
- intelligence
- kidnapping
- knowledge
- malaise
- mastery
- mentality
- misgiving
- mistrust
- nervousness
- netting
- notion
- observation
- opinion
- overanxiety
- panic
- perception
- perturbation
- pessimism
- pickup
- pinch
- possession
- precognition
- prehension
- premonition
- presage
- presentiment
- pucker
- qualm
- question
- rationality
- recept
- reflection
- reliance
- representation
- sanity
- savvy
- scruple
- scrupulousness
- seizure
- self-doubt
- sense
- sentiment
- skepticism
- snatch
- solicitude
- stew
- strain
- supposition
- suspense
- suspicion
- suspiciousness
- tension
- theory
- thought
- trouble
- trust
- uncertainty
- understanding
- unease
- uneasiness
- upset
- vexation
- waiting
- wariness
- wisdom
- wit
- worry
- zeal
The sense of death is most in apprehension;
And the poor beetle, that we tread upon,
In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great
As when a giant dies.
This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory; this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow
By thinking on fantastic summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
