Apprehensive vs Horror - What's the difference?
apprehensive | horror |
Anticipating something with anxiety or fear.
* 1719 ,
Perceptive; quick to learn; intelligent; capable of grasping with the mind or intellect.
* 1670 ,
An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.
An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=1 A genre of fiction, meant to evoke a feeling of fear and suspense.
* {{quote-news
, year = 1898
, date = July 3
, newspaper = Philadelphia Inquirer
, page = 22
, passage = The Home Magazine for July (Binghamton and New York) contains ‘The Patriots' War Chant,’ a poem by Douglas Malloch; ‘The Story of the War,’ by Theodore Waters; ‘A Horseman in the Sky,’ by Ambrose Bierce, with a portrait of Mr. Bierce, whose tales of horror are horrible of themselves, not as war is horrible; ‘A Yankee Hero,’ by W. L. Calver; ‘The Warfare of the Future,’ by Louis Seemuller; ‘Florence Nightingale,’ by Susan E. Dickenson, with two rare portraits, etc.
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* {{quote-news
, year = 1917
, date = February 11
, newspaper = New York Times
, section = Book reviews
, page = 52
, passage = Those who enjoy horror , stories overflowing with blood and black mystery, will be grateful to Richard Marsh for writing ‘The Beetle.’
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* 1947 , re-release poster, tagline:
(informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression; this sense can also be spoken or written as the horrors .
As an adjective apprehensive
is .As a noun horror is
.apprehensive
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- this convinced me that there was no going on shore for us in the night on that coast, and how to venture on shore in the day was another question too; for to have fallen into the hands of any of the savages had been as bad as to have fallen into the hands of the lions and tigers; at least we were equally apprehensive of the danger of it.
- More fond of Miracles, than apprehensive of Truth.
Derived terms
* apprehensivelyhorror
English
Alternative forms
* horrourNoun
(en noun)citation, passage=“Mrs. Yule's chagrin and horror at what she called her son's base ingratitude knew no bounds ; at first it was even thought that she would never get over it. […]”}}
- A Nightmare of Horror !