What's the difference between apprehension and misapprehension?

Apprehension


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension.
  • (n.) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped.
  • (n.) The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing any judgment; intellection; perception.
  • (n.) Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
  • (n.) The faculty by which ideas are conceived; understanding; as, a man of dull apprehension.
  • (n.) Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; distrust or fear at the prospect of future evil.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, it is easier for them to cope with anxiety because premedication pacifies the patients, whereas each of the dependent variables, such as apprehension, is influenced differently.
  • (2) Environmental campaigners had been apprehensive about the chances of the Senate ratifying a new international treaty – a successor to the Kyoto protocol – to combat global warming unless a consensus had already been reached on Capitol Hill.
  • (3) Family unit apprehensions are indeed at a historical high and UAC apprehensions are surging back to levels seen in 2014 .
  • (4) He was slightly apprehensive, and more than a little starstruck when he subsequently met the real Tippi Hedren.
  • (5) The surgical technique uses a local anesthetic containing a vasoconstrictor or an ultralight intravenous general anesthetic in addition to the local anesthetic for the apprehensive or acutely infected patient.
  • (6) Change in anesthesiologists may have been a factor in increasing apprehension and anesthetic dosage in later treatments.
  • (7) Apprehension mounted but Liverpool's title pursuit could not be derailed.
  • (8) The most frequent reason for closing the unit was the apprehension the patient would leave the hospital.
  • (9) The busy atmosphere and routine of a hospital is apt to induce apprehension in a patient about to have a surgical operation.
  • (10) Shine waited 18 hours before she could see her baby for the first time and reflected on how Google Glass could have been used in those initial 18 hours to ease some of her apprehensions and fears.
  • (11) To improve early diagnosis of gastric carcinoma (GC), it is recommended that every endoscopic investigation be performed with oncological apprehension, paying attention even to the minimum focal changes in the gastric mucosa and making spot biopsy of those changes.
  • (12) We felt by the end of the process we were prepared, if a bit apprehensive.
  • (13) He requires patience, understanding, and repeated explanations to allay his apprehension and anxiety.
  • (14) They have drastically reduced the number of interior deportations – those involving apprehensions that occur away from the border and usually involve individuals who have lived in the US for years – by activating a “ Priority Enforcement Program ”.
  • (15) At a media day held to mark the completion of the training and arranged before the tragedy, soldier after soldier came forward to insist that, though they were apprehensive, they were determined to do a good job, partly to make sure that their six colleagues had not died in vain.
  • (16) Because of an apprehension of an unnecessary death occurring during their treatment, healers frequently refer cases, from traditional to modern medicine and from general practitioner to hospital.
  • (17) The speaker of the House has offered an explanation for the apprehension of a suspect in a planned Capitol shooting at odds with the FBI’s description of the case.
  • (18) He decided to resign, but was strangely apprehensive, fearing that he would never get another job.
  • (19) If McCroskey's distinction between trait and situation-based state is appropriate, personality variables ordinarily associated with trait apprehension about communication should not correlate as highly with forms defined as more situation specific, such as anxiety about public speaking.
  • (20) Mumbaikars are excited, but also apprehensive: opportunities like this have been hijacked and squandered in the past.

Misapprehension


Definition:

  • (n.) A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This review considers the biophysics of penetrating missile wounds, highlights some of the more common misconceptions and seeks to reconcile the conflicting and confusing management doctrines that are promulgated in the literature-differences that arise not only from two scenarios, peace and war, but also from misapprehensions of the wounding process.
  • (2) Theories of denture retention have suffered from confusion of model, algebraic errors, and misapprehension of the physics of capillarity, adhesion and cohesion, as well as the role of atmospheric pressure.
  • (3) have had quite a deep impact, so I think some people react very defensively and dismissively to any feminist article on the misapprehension that it must be about taking men down, or calling all men sexist or ‘bad’ – which isn’t the case at all – I think this can cause some people to feel scared, that somehow by making women equal we will have to diminish men in some way.
  • (4) There is a misapprehension, he says, that every time a child sex crime reaches the media it disgraces the community.
  • (5) I must admit I was surprised, and found myself wondering if the misapprehension all comes down to bone structure.
  • (6) If there has been one constant throughout a music career lasting almost 30 years, Tracey Thorn would almost certainly say it has been other people's misapprehensions about what she's really like.
  • (7) The biggest misapprehension about Sondheim – that he puts intellect above feeling, as if the two aren't connected – rests, as he sees it, on a wrong-headed understanding of art; that it is driven by something imprecise and mystical, rather than hard, fast rules.
  • (8) As the many questions raised by a generic viewpoint are considered, one can observe that much of the resistance to this concept among professionals is attributable to fear of the unfamiliar, protection of vested interest, misapprehension about consequences and, not least, prejudice reflecting the stereotyped ideas of the general population.
  • (9) Bell said he "completely refuted" he was antisemitic and said he could "not be held responsible for whatever cultural precepts and misapprehensions people choose to bring to my cartoon".
  • (10) Cooper and Ryan describe interaction of penetrating missiles with tissues, they denounce that they call common misapprehensions in wound ballistic and they try to reconcile engineers works and clinical observations.
  • (11) She ordered her officials to "urgently consider how to approach the Americans on the question of possible Soviet misapprehensions about a surprise Nato attack".
  • (12) Only by doing so is there any prospect of dissolving the misapprehension that Vietnam veterans have been poisoned by herbicides.
  • (13) This misapprehension was caused, in part, by confusion with another pharyngeal resident, Neisseria cinerea.
  • (14) "But it rests on a fundamental misapprehension of what works.
  • (15) These misapprehensions may influence the management of wounds by suggesting didactic approaches based upon a preconceived notion of the nature and severity of the wound for different types of projectiles.
  • (16) Such misapprehensions can be helped by the counselor's willingness to discuss sexual issues openly.
  • (17) Spinal cord-injured clients have many fears and misapprehension about their sexual functioning.
  • (18) Many, including Girls creator Lena Dunham, have tweeted support for Dylan , while others have pointed to a blog from last week by the director Robert Weide, who made a documentary about Allen and who seeks to debunk some of the misapprehensions about the case.
  • (19) "By arresting, imprisoning and attempting to deport Sheikh Raed Salah on what the judge has determined as a 'misapprehension of the facts', the British government have acted in a shameful way," Sarah Colborne, the PSC's director, said.
  • (20) Talks could help to break down some of the misapprehensions that have inflamed the conflict.