Apprehension vs Reticence - What's the difference?
apprehension | reticence |
(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:
tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much
a silent and reserved nature
As nouns the difference between apprehension and reticence
is that apprehension is the physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure while reticence is tight-lippedness, discretion, avoidance of saying too much.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.
