apprehensiveness
- n fearful expectation or anticipation
- He was a small neat man with a sort of Disney apprehensiveness.
- It is not Sherwood's art, but the audience's apprehensiveness, that gives "There Shall Be No Night" its grim interest.
- Best of a bad lot was Robert Sherwood's "There Shall Be No Night," which owed as much to the audience's apprehensiveness as to Sherwood's art, but was a frequently eloquent .