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Chivalry Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Apprehensed
Is "apprehense" even a word?
I'm 100% sure that I've seen a sentence that went something like "I'm apprehensed by reality", for real.
I already refer to a dictionary, and it suggests that it's not a word.
I'm 100% sure that I've seen a sentence that went something like "I'm apprehensed by reality", for real.
I already refer to a dictionary, and it suggests that it's not a word.
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The real verb is of course 'apprehend'. Someone could, jocularly, coin 'apprehense' (as native speakers often do, on an ad hoc basis), so perhaps that's what you saw.
- The real verb is of course 'apprehend'.
- Someone could, jocularly, coin 'apprehense' (as native speakers often do, on an ad hoc basis), so perhaps that's what you saw.
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The real verb is of course 'apprehend'. Someone could, jocularly, coin 'apprehense' (as native speakers often do, on an ad hoc basis), so perhaps that's what you saw.
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There is a word: Apprehensive.
I am apprehensive about the big test that I have to take tomorrow.
If you are inexplicably fearful about something that does not affect others, and it adversely affects your life, then you can use "phobic" or one of the many words that end in -phobia.
I suffer from panophobia. (I am afraid of everything.)
I am apprehensive about the big test that I have to take tomorrow.
If you are inexplicably fearful about something that does not affect others, and it adversely affects your life, then you can use "phobic" or one of the many words that end in -phobia.
I suffer from panophobia. (I am afraid of everything.)
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