Definition of

Apprehension

Woman looking at food with apprehension

Eating with apprehension is not recommended.

Apprehension is the reservation or scruple one has when contacting someone or something, when something negative or harmful is expected from said contact. Apprehension is the suspicion that develops.

Some examples

Since this is not a very common term in everyday speech, here are three example sentences to see it in context and better understand its meaning: "The truth is that I ate lunch with apprehension since its aroma was very strange to me." and not very pleasant" , "I was always apprehensive about commitments, but when I met Mercedes, I immediately knew that I wanted to marry her" , "I don't understand your apprehension towards doctors" .

As can be seen in the examples, apprehension appears if a harmful consequence is predicted . The person who eats lunch with apprehension suspects that the food may be bad for him. A situation like this is not common in your own home, if the person in charge of the kitchen is a family member or friend, but it can occur in a restaurant or other industrial establishment, especially if the diner has a health problem or He is too demanding with the quality of the food. Eating with apprehension is not recommended, as stress can cause indigestion even if there is nothing wrong with the dish.

Regarding the second example, someone who is apprehensive about commitments rejects them because they consider that they would not make them happy or because of the fear of the opposite, of not being able to make the other person happy. The emotional plane of human beings is too complex to define, since each individual can experience the same situation differently. Speaking specifically of romantic partners , there are those who seem to have been born especially prepared to marry and live together, but also those who never manage to sustain their relationships for more than a few weeks .

Due to apprehension of doctors , possibly generated by fear of a bad diagnosis, an individual may stop going to health centers. Medicine is one of the fields widely respected by humans, but that does not mean that everyone agrees with its effectiveness nor does it guarantee the reliability of all its professionals. It is enough for us to talk to ten people to hear a large number of unfortunate stories that manage to scare more than one person away from the office.

Prejudice or unfounded opinion

Apprehension, on the other hand, may be a prejudice or an unfounded opinion . In this case, the term is usually used in the plural : "I am not going to pay attention to your apprehensions" , "My mother's apprehensions have made me tired" , "The president once again showed his apprehensions" .

distrustful child

Apprehension can also be a prejudice or an unfounded opinion.

This meaning is perhaps more subjective than the previous one, although both refer to issues that do not arise from logic or material evidence. We cannot help but process the data we collect from our environment using our own experiences, and this leads us to misinterpret certain signals, to feel fear or mistrust even when we are safe. From the outside, in moments like these they may believe that we let ourselves be carried away by our apprehensions, but getting rid of them is not easy.

Apprehension

Apprehension, finally, is synonymous with apprehension in the sense of trapping or capturing someone or something, or registering something through the senses or intellectual capacity: "The judge has already issued the arrest warrant" / "The judge has already issued the arrest warrant . Since short or simple sounds are not usually distinguished from long sounds in our language, these two words are pronounced the same way in most cases.