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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety, fear |
| Synonyms: | alarm, apprehensiveness, concern, disquiet, doubt, dread, foreboding, misgiving, mistrust, premonition, presage, presentiment, suspicion, trepidation, uneasiness, worry |
| Antonyms: | calmness, ease |
| Main Entry: | apprehension |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | understanding |
| Synonyms: | awareness, comprehension, grasp, idea, intellect, intelligence, judgment, ken, knowledge, notion, perception, perspicacity, thought |
| Antonyms: | imperception, misunderstanding |
| Main Entry: | alarm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of sudden fear |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, cold feet, consternation, dismay, distress, dread, fright, horror, nervousness, panic, scare, strain, stress, tension, terror, trepidation, unease, uneasiness |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, confidence, peace, quietness, repose, security |
| Main Entry: | angst |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling of anxiety |
| Synonyms: | Weltschmerz, agony, apprehension, blues, depression, dread, mid-life crisis, misgiving, nervousness, uneasiness |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awaiting, contemplation, expectancy, foresight, foretaste, high hopes, hope, impatience, joy, looking forward, outlook, preconception, premonition, preoccupation, prescience, presentiment, promise, prospect, trust |
| Antonyms: | amazement, astonishment, doubt, fear, sensation, surprise, wonder |
| Main Entry: | anticipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | readiness; forethought |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, awareness, foreboding, forecast, foreseeing, foresight, foretaste, forethought, inkling, intuition, preconception, premonition, prescience, presentiment, prevision, prior knowledge, realization |
| Antonyms: | doubt, unreadiness |
| Main Entry: | anxiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | worry, tension |
| Synonyms: | all-overs, angst, ants in pants, apprehension, botheration, butterflies, care, cold sweat, concern, creeps, disquiet, disquietude, distress, doubt, downer, drag*, dread, fidgets, flap, foreboding, fretfulness, fuss, goose bumps, heebie-jeebies, jitters, jumps, misery, misgiving, mistrust, nail-biting, needles, nervousness, panic, pins and needles, restlessness, shakes, shivers, solicitude, suffering, suspense, sweat*, trouble, uncertainty, unease, uneasiness, watchfulness, willies, worriment |
| Antonyms: | assurance, calmness, composure, contentment, ease, happiness, nonchalance, peace, tranquility |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | arrest |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | taking into custody |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, apprehension, appropriation, bag*, booby trap, bust, captivity, capture, collar, commitment, confinement, constraint, crimp, detention, drop*, fall*, gaff, glom, grab*, heat*, hook*, imprisonment, incarceration, jailing, mitt, nab, nail, nick, nip, pick up*, pickle, pinch*, preventive custody, protective custody, pull in, pull*, restraining, run in, sequestering, snare, sweep* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | awareness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | knowledge |
| Synonyms: | acquaintance, acquaintanceship, alertness, aliveness, appreciation, apprehension, attention, attentiveness, bodhi, cognizance, comprehension, consciousness, discernment, enlightenment, experience, familiarity, information, keenness, mindfulness, perception, realization, recognition, sensibility, sentience, understanding |
| Antonyms: | ignorance, insensitivity, unconsciousness |
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