IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immediate apprehension mean? 

• IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION (noun)
  The noun IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION has 1 sense:

1. immediate intuitive awareness

  Familiarity information: IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMEDIATE APPREHENSION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Immediate intuitive awareness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

immediacy; immediate apprehension

Hypernyms ("immediate apprehension" is a kind of...):

intuition (instinctive knowing (without the use of rational processes))

 Context examples 

He stood at Miss Temple's side; he was speaking low in her ear: I did not doubt he was making disclosures of my villainy; and I watched her eye with painful anxiety, expecting every moment to see its dark orb turn on me a glance of repugnance and contempt. I listened too; and as I happened to be seated quite at the top of the room, I caught most of what he said: its import relieved me from immediate apprehension.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)