PREHENSIONS Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

prehensions

noun

plural of prehension

as in perceptions

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Noun

African policymakers have long said Western institutions’ influence over risk perceptions have led to unfairly high funding costs.

— Paige Bruton, semafor.com, 2 Oct. 2026
In addition to analyzing this objective data, leaders listen and observe subjective data of employees’ perceptions.

— John Radman, Forbes.com, 2 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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The cutting edge of this debate is happening in cryptography, where AI has completely changed popular understandings of trust and assurance.

— Ali El Kaafarani, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026
Trying to fit Hinduism into Western categories of theisms diverges from the tradition’s diverse history of ideas while mixing internal understandings with European perspectives and categories.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of understandings

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Read on to find out more about how DLSS works (and some early apprehensions about its latest release).

— Aman Kumar, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 Sep. 2026
But the security that these systems provide have raised apprehensions about personal privacy and about where such footage gets stored and distributed.

— David Friend, Vanity Fair, 10 Sep. 2026

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