Apprehension vs Omen - What's the difference?
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(rare) The physical act of seizing]] or [[take hold, taking hold of; seizure.
* 2006 , Phil Senter, "Comparison of Forelimb Function between Deinonychus'' and ''Babiraptor'' (Theropoda: Dromaeosauridea)", ''Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, vol. 26, no. 4 (Dec.), p. 905:
(legal) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
* 1855 , , North and South , ch. 37:
The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
* 1815 , , "On Life," in A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays (1840 edition):
Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
* 1901 , , Penelope's English Experiences , ch. 8:
The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
* 1854 , , Hard Times , ch. 7:
Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.
* 1846 , , Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life , ch. 32:
Something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.
* 1856 , (Gustave Flaubert), (Madame Bovary), Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
prophetic significance
To be an omen of.
To divine or predict from omens.
As nouns the difference between apprehension and omen
is that apprehension is the physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure while omen is something which portends or is perceived to portend a good or evil event or circumstance in the future; an augury or foreboding.As a verb omen is
to be an omen of.apprehension
English
Noun
(en noun)- The wing would have been a severe obstruction to apprehension of an object on the ground.
- The warrant had been issued for his apprehension on the charge of rioting.
- We live on, and in living we lose the apprehension of life.
- We think we get a kind of vague apprehension of what London means from the top of a 'bus better than anywhere else.
- Strangers of limited information and dull apprehension were sometimes observed not to know what a Powler was.
- Every circumstance which evinced the savage nature of the beings at whose mercy I was, augmented the fearful apprehensions that consumed me.
Usage notes
* Apprehension'' springs from a sense of danger when somewhat remote, but approaching; ''alarm'' arises from danger when announced as near at hand. ''Apprehension'' is less agitated and more persistent; ''alarm is more agitated and transient.Synonyms
* (anticipation of unfavorable things) alarmAntonyms
* inapprehensionReferences
* * Oxford English Dictionary , 2nd ed., 1989.omen
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia omen)- the ghost's appearance was an ill omen
- a rise in imports might be an omen of recovery
- the egg has, during the span of history, represented mystery, magic, medicine, food and omen
- Day broke. He saw three black hens asleep in a tree. He shuddered, horrified at this omen . Then he promised the Holy Virgin three chasubles for the church, and that he would go barefooted from the cemetery at Bertaux to the chapel of Vassonville.
- a sign of ill omen