Definition of Astonishment

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

Astonishment is the root of philosophy.
Paul Tillich

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Eugene Ionesco

The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
Patrick Stewart

I find to my mixed astonishment that I do dream, but I didn't know it.
Theodore Sturgeon

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

Each individual fact, taken by itself, can indeed arouse our curiosity or our astonishment, or be useful to us in its practical applications.
Hermann von Helmholtz

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

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

The politics of surprise leads through the Gates of Astonishment into the Kingdom of Hope.
Max Lerner

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.
Nadia Boulanger

Every spring is the only spring, a perpetual astonishment.
Ellis Peters

If at first you do succeed - try to hide your astonishment.
Harry Banks

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.
Celia Green

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Astonishment Translations

astonishment in Italian is stupore
astonishment in Latin is admiratio

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