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apprehensiveness
[ap-ri-hen-siv] 
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apprehension
[ap-ri-hen-shuhn]
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| 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: | misgiving |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty |
| Synonyms: | anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, distrust, doubt, fear, foreboding, hesitation, mistrust, premonition, prenotion, presage, presentiment, qualm, reservation, scruple, suspicion, unbelief, unease, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, confidence, doubtlessness, sureness, trust |
| Main Entry: | premonition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling that an event is about to occur |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forewarning, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, idea, intuition, misgiving, omen, portent, prenotion, presage, presentiment, sign, sinking feeling, suspicion, vibes, vibrations, warning, wind change, winds, winds of change, worriment |
| Main Entry: | presage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prediction, indication |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, augury, auspice, bodement, boding, forecast, foretoken, forewarning, harbinger, intimation, misgiving, omen, portent, premonition, prenotion, presentiment, prognostic, prognostication, prophecy, sign, warning |
| Main Entry: | presentiment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation, expectation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, apprehensiveness, discomposure, disquietude, disturbance, fear, feeling, feeling in bones, foreboding, forecast, forethought, funny feeling, handwriting on wall, hunch, intuition, misgiving, perturbation, premonition, prenotion, presage, sinking feeling, vibes, worriment |
| Main Entry: | stress |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | physical or mental pressure |
| Synonyms: | affliction, agony, alarm, albatross, anxiety, apprehensiveness, burden, clutch, crunch, disquiet, disquietude, distention, draw, dread, expectancy, extension, fear, fearfulness, ferment, flutter, force, hardship, hassle, heat, impatience, intensity, misgiving, mistrust, nervous tension, nervousness, oppression, overextension, passion, protraction, pull, restlessness, spring, strain, stretch, tautness, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, traction, trauma, trepidation, trial, urgency, worry |
| Antonyms: | indifference, relaxation |
| Main Entry: | anxiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety |
| Synonyms: | agita, anguish, apprehension, apprehensiveness, concern, disquiet, disquietude, distress, fearfulness, nervousness, pins and needles, solicitude, unease, uneasiness, worry |
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