astonishment
IPA: ʌstˈɑnɪʃmʌnt
noun
- The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.
- Something very surprising.
- (obsolete) Loss of physical sensation; inability to move a part of the body.
- (obsolete) Loss of mental faculties, inability to think or use one's senses.
- (obsolete) Loss of composure or presence of mind.
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Examples of "astonishment" in Sentences
- The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, "You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook?"
- Gary Gensler's colleagues at Treasury looked at their TV screens in astonishment, Robert recalls: What the hell is Gary doing on TV?
- Why does this not seem to bother our actual children? and Captain Huggy Face made it a good week by dancing out the word "astonishment."
- Sorta like watching (in astonishment, I confess, even tho anticipated) the contrast of Obama not hesitating at all in implementing his goals.
- Mizander shook his head in astonishment and as Duke walked over to him to embrace him one last time, I saw the sun coming up over the horizon.
- I had to laugh, as the ladies who checked me out looked at me in astonishment (!) and asked, not once, but three times, "Are you sure you want ALL of these patterns?!"
- People - and by no means professional philosophers only - often have experiences which they describe as astonishment at the fact of existence, awe in the face of 'Nothingness', apprehension of the unreality of the world or the feeling that whatever is impermanent must be accounted for by what is indestructible.
- The Romans used the verb _stupeo_, a term which strongly marks the state of an astonished mind, to express the effect either of simple fear, or of astonishment; the word _attonitus_ (thunderstruck) is equally expressive of the alliance of these ideas; and do not the French _étonnement_, and the English _astonishment_ and _amazement_, point out as clearly the kindred emotions which attend fear and wonder?
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