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Definition: Apprehensiveness |
ApprehensivenessNoun1. Fearful expectation or anticipation: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "apprehensiveness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1878. (references) |
Synonyms: ApprehensivenessSynonyms: apprehension (n), dread (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Fear | Noun: fear, timidity, diffidence, want of confidence; apprehensiveness, fearfulness; Adjective: solicitude, anxiety, care, apprehension, misgiving; feeze; mistrust; (doubt); suspicion, qualm; hesitation; (irresolution). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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 | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | | Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. |
| Soap opera; dramatic; foreboding; anxiety; apprehension; apprehensiveness; augury; bad omen; bad vibes; chill; dread; fear; foreshadowing; foretoken; forewarning; funny feeling; good vibes; portent; prediction; premonition; prenotion; presage; presentimen. | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| "Apprehensiveness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Apprehensiveness" is used about 5 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "apprehensiveness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قلق (agitated, anxiety, anxious, apprehension, apprehensive, bother, concern, concerned, crankous, cranky, discomfort, disquiet, disquietude, disturbance, fearful, fidget, fidgety, freakish, fretful, ill at ease, inquietude, nervous, perturbation, perturbed, restless, restlessness, solicitous, solicitude, stew, streaked, suspense, sweat, toss, troubled, troublous, uneasiness, uneasy, unquiet, unrest, upset, worried, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Besorgnis (anxiety, apprehension, care, concern, solicitude, unease, uneasiness, worry). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | allarme (alarm, alert, concern, scare, warning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | apprehensivenessay apreensão (apprehension, arrest, capture, creeps, misgiving, prehension, seizing, seizure, sense, sequestration), sagacidade (acumen, adroitness, canniness, deepness, freehearted, policy, sagacity, sapience, wisdom, wit), receio (apprehension, awe, dismay, distrust, fear, misgiving, mistrust, trepidation), capacidade intelectual. (various references) озабоченность (anxiousness, aprehensiveness, concernment, solicitude). (various references) aprensión (apprehension, fear, squeamishness), temor (awe, fear, fervency, funk, misgiving, temerity). (various references) відчуття страху, побоювання (anticipation, apprehension, fear, misgiving, trembling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "apprehensiveness": apprehensivenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Apprehensiveness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prehensiveness. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "apprehensiveness" (pronounced 'Ap`pre*hen"sive*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-p-p-r-s-s-s-v" | |
-4 letters: apprehensive, paperinesses. | |
-5 letters: happinesses, heavinesses, invernesses, naivenesses, nervinesses, peevishness, pensiveness. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-e-h-i-n-n-p-p-r-s-s-s-v" | |
+2 letters: apprehensivenesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 70 70 72 65 68 65 6E 73 69 76 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- .--. .--. .-. . .... . -. ... .. ...- . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01110000 01110000 01110010 01100101 01101000 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01110110 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A p p r e h e n s i v e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0070 0070 0072 0065 0068 0065 006E 0073 0069 0076 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)35828284717471808575887180718585 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, arabisch, arabo, арабский, árabe, арабська мова, арабський |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, tedesco, alemão, немецкий, alemán, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, italienisch, italiano, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, portugiesisch, portoghese, português, португальский, portugués, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, Russe, russisch, russo, русский, ruso, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, spanisch, spagnolo, espanhol, испанский, español, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ucranio, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, englisch, inglese, inglês, английский, inglés, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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