prehension

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from Latin prehensio, prehensionis. Doublet of prison.

Even that filigree art of prehension and comprehension in general, that feeling for delicate shades of difference, that psychology of "seeing through brick walls," and whatever else I may be able to do, was first learnt then, and is the specific gift of that period during which everything in me was subtilised,--observation itself, together with all the organs of observation. — Ecce Homo: Complete Works, Volume Seventeen, Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

grasping, taking hold, seizing

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