Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun apprehensiveness

1 sense of apprehensiveness

Sense 1
apprehension, apprehensiveness, dread -- (fearful expectation or anticipation; "the student looked around the examination room with apprehension")
       => fear, fearfulness, fright -- (an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight))