apprehension

noun8

1. •
   The taking of something.
2. •
   Anticipation, especially of unfavorable things such as dread or fear or the prospect of something unpleasant in the future.

   • Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me. — 1846
3. •
   The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.

   • The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting. — 1855
4. •
   (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of (something); seizing.

   • The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground. — 2006
5. •
   The awareness of something
6. •
   Perception; the act of understanding using one's intellect without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment

   • We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life. — 1815
7. •
   The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.

   • Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was. — 1854
8. •
   Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.

   • We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else. — 1901