Princeton's WordNet

1. apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread(noun)

   fearful expectation or anticipation

   "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"

2. understanding, apprehension, discernment, savvy(noun)

   the cognitive condition of someone who understands

   "he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect"

3. apprehension, misgiving(noun)

   painful expectation

4. apprehension, arrest, catch, collar, pinch, taking into custody(noun)

   the act of apprehending (especially apprehending a criminal)

   "the policeman on the beat got credit for the collar"

Wiktionary

1. apprehension(Noun)

   The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.

2. apprehension(Noun)

   The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

3. apprehension(Noun)

   The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.

4. apprehension(Noun)

   Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

5. apprehension(Noun)

   The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

6. apprehension(Noun)

   Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

Origin: From apprehensio, compare with French appréhension. See apprehend.

Webster Dictionary

1. Apprehension(noun)

   the act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension

2. Apprehension(noun)

   the act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped

3. Apprehension(noun)

   the act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception

4. Apprehension(noun)

   opinion; conception; sentiment; idea

5. Apprehension(noun)

   the faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension

6. Apprehension(noun)

   anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil

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