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Noun: apprehensiveness  `ap-ri'hen-siv-nus
  1. Fearful expectation or anticipation
    "the student looked around the examination room with apprehensiveness"
    - apprehension, dread

Derived forms: apprehensivenesses

See also: apprehensive

Type of: fear, fearfulness, fright

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