Definition of Astonishment

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Astonishment

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.

Dismay; consternation.

The overpowering emotion excited when something unaccountable, wonderful, or dreadful is presented to the mind; an intense degree of surprise; amazement.

The object causing such an emotion.

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Astonishment Quotations

Anthropology demands the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
Margaret Mead

I requested the gentlemen to put on their hats, and the ladies their shawls, to avoid catching cold, and then had the windows widely opened. This proceeding caused some astonishment and alarm at first ; for the Americans generally have a dread of cold air.
George Combe

I must be informed, that one of my great duties was, to obey the priests in all things; and this I soon learnt, to my utter astonishment and horror, was to live in the practice of criminal intercourse with them.
Maria Monk

Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
Pierre Loti

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

Astonishment Translations

astonishment in Italian is stupore
astonishment in Latin is admiratio


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