Definition of "apprehensiveness" []

• The state of being apprehensive (noun)

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• "TUCKER: In that song, "Long White Dress," the narrator recalls apprehensiveness about getting married."
• "I have seen, with burning indignation, a malignant beast (I mean man) playing upon that tendency to a terrible apprehensiveness which is born with many men."
• "This morbid disposition is the parent of a continual apprehensiveness which is shown upon all sorts of occasions."