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AMAZEMENT

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• AMAZEMENT (noun)
The noun AMAZEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising

Familiarity information: AMAZEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

• AMAZEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

amazement; astonishment

Context example:

he looked at me in astonishment

Hypernyms ("amazement" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amazement"):

admiration; wonder; wonderment (the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising)

surprise (the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you)

stupefaction (a feeling of stupefied astonishment)

"The more things change, the more they stay the same."
(English proverb)
"That which does not kill you, makes you stronger."
(Friedrich Nietzsche)
"There is no evil without goodness."
(Armenian proverb)
"An understanding person needs only half a word."
(Dutch proverb)

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