PREHENSIONS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

prehensions

noun

plural of prehension

as in perceptions

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Noun

The data comes from the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute’s inaugural regional well-being survey, which asked adults across 14 counties about their finances, housing, communities and perceptions of their own lives.

— Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 24 Oct. 2026
The school has worked hard to knock down the bogeyman perceptions.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of perceptions

Noun

Many young adults who started families in the past twenty years were raised this way, which shaped their own conceptions of how to rear children.

— Margaret Talbot, New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2026
Whether destruction or technological progress, both are purposeful activities, each with different conceptions of success or failure.

— Brian Boucher, ARTnews.com, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of conceptions

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Advertisement Beneath their cultural differences, AI safety and cybersecurity have competing understandings of what AI is.

— Harry Booth, Time, 20 Oct. 2026
China and the United States would be well advised to seek similar understandings to limit the AI arms race.

— NIALL FERGUSON, Foreign Affairs, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of understandings

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But the plaintiffs said that the Big Bend Sector ranks last for apprehensions compared to the other six sectors along the southern border.

— Melissa Quinn, CBS News, 21 Oct. 2026
Talarico’s success so far can partly be chalked up to voters’ apprehensions toward Paxton, who faced questions in his past over corruption, including being impeached by his own party in the Texas legislature.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of apprehensions

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