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apprehension has 11 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
fearful expectation or anticipation
“the student looked around the examination room with apprehension”
the cognitive condition of someone who understands
“he has virtually no understanding of social cause and effect”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for apprehension come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.