Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
fearful expectation or anticipation;
- Example: "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension"[syn: apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Apprehensiveness \Ap`pre*hen"sive*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being apprehensive.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
apprehensiveness
n 1: fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked
around the examination room with apprehension" [syn:
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread]