“apprehensiveness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

apprehensiveness

释义

appreˈhensiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. Aptness to apprehend; intelligence, perceptiveness, discernment.
a1639Reliq. Wotton. 81 We shall often mark in it [the eye] a dulness, or apprehensiveness, even before the understanding.1702S. P[arker] Tully's De Fin. 144 The Winged World make frequent Discoveries of their Apprehensiveness and Memory.1805Wordsw. Prel. viii. (1851) 190 Yet knowledge came..In fits of kindliest apprehensiveness, From all sides.
2. The habit of anticipating things adverse; fearfulness as to what may be coming.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 243 So much apprehensiveness that her fears are aforehand with her dangers.1860A. L. Windsor Ethica vii. 399 Nervous anxiety and..exaggerated apprehensiveness.

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