noun opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
2. apprehension ·noun the act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
3. apprehension ·noun the faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
4. apprehension ·noun anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.
5. apprehension ·noun the act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
6. apprehension ·noun the act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.