apprehension

IPA: æprɪhˈɛnʃʌn

(rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.
(law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.

Examples of "apprehension" in Sentences

Here in the Persian Gulf, apprehension is off the charts.
– If my apprehension is right and the bad effects of the law outweigh the good ...
The rest of the monkey orchestra merely shivered in apprehension of what next atrocity should be perpetrated.
Vaccine apprehension is largely a luxury enjoyed by societies no longer ravaged by the dreadful diseases vaccines have helped prevent.
But it does fill me with a certain apprehension and worry to be competing against people whom I find more respectable, more deserving of being nominated.
He lifted and dropped his feet with the lithe softness of a cat, and from time to time glanced to right and to left as if in apprehension of some flank attack.
The person in charge of dealing with such complaints called me back a few days later and said that that small plane was probably part of law enforcement monitoring an apprehension from the air in the event of a pursuit.
Whitman's extravagant verse, unrestrained by rhyme and meter, subject to startling exclamations and even made-up words, was met with considerable apprehension from the literary community, Emerson and his fellows at The Atlantic included.
Once, when the ketch, swerved by some vagrant current, came close to the break of the shore-surf, the blacks on board drew toward one another in apprehension akin to that of startled sheep in a fold when a wild woods marauder howls outside.