Definition of Apprehension
Apprehension
The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
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Apprehension Quotations
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god.
William Shakespeare
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Isaac Newton
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac
There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If a person studies too much and exhausts his reflective powers, he will be confused, and will not be able to apprehend even that which had been within the power of his apprehension. For the powers of the body are all alike in this respect.
Maimonides
Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.
Henri Bergson
Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.
Alfred North Whitehead
Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
Herbert Read
It's quite ironic I suppose, it's that thing about being in a group when you all start out as friends and then invariably end up hating each other. So I just thought they needed telling really, in case they were labouring under the apprehension that they were still friends.
Peter Hook
As a father and grandfather, I have witnessed firsthand the joy of new life entering the world. I know the pain and apprehension that goes along with premature births and birth defects.
Solomon Ortiz
Apprehension Translations
apprehension in Dutch is aanhouding, arrestatie
apprehension in French is arrestation
apprehension in German is Festnahme, Auffassungsgabe {f}
apprehension in Italian is frutto, arresto
apprehension in Latin is sollicitudo
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