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apprehensiveness

How many syllables in apprehensiveness?

  5 syllables

Divide apprehensiveness into syllables:   ap-pre-hen-sive-ness
Primary syllable stress:   ap-pre-hen-sive-ness
Secondary syllable stress:   ap-pre-hen-sive-ness
How to say apprehensiveness:

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Synonyms for apprehensiveness


1 syllable
  • doubt
  • qualm
  • pang
2 syllables
  • unease
    3 syllables
    • bad feeling
    • foreboding
    4 syllables
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