prehension

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: pre=hen=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

prehension, n. [L. prehensio; cf. F. préhension. See Prehensile.].

 The act of taking hold, seizing, or grasping, as with the hand or other member.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prehension, n.
1 grasping, seizing.
2 mental apprehension.

Etymology

L prehensio (as PREHENSILE)

THESAURUS

prehension

abduction, apprehension, arrest, arrestation, bottling up, capture, catch, catching, clairvoyance, collaring, command, comprehension, conception, conceptualization, corking up, coup, dragnet, forcible seizure, foreknowledge, grab, grabbing, grasp, grip, hold, holding, holding in, ideation, inhibition, intellection, intelligence, keeping, kidnapping, locking in, maintenance, mastery, mental grasp, nabbing, picking up, power grab, precognition, preservation, repression, retainment, retention, retentiveness, retentivity, running in, savvy, seizure, seizure of power, snatch, snatching, suppression, taking in, taking into custody, tenacity, understanding, wisdom

ROGET THESAURUS

prehension

Taking

N taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction, withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.