apprehensiveness

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On this page you'll find 253 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to apprehensiveness, such as: anguish, apprehension, concern, disquiet, disquietude, and distress.

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How to use apprehensiveness in a sentence

  • And now, not without a bit of apprehensiveness, he let it out.

  • He surveyed his brown fists with a certain apprehensiveness, as though they were dangerous parties over whom he had no control.

  • Her voice was politely remonstrative, with a note of apprehensiveness for the welfare of her mistress.

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  • Anger and apprehensiveness were working twin leverage on the Comas executive.

  • This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions.

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