Amazement vs Astound - What's the difference?
amazement | astound |
(uncountable) The condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=9 (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
* 1682 , , The fiery tryal no strange thing , Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
* 1791 , "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith , W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
* 1853 , , Villette , ch. 41,
(countable, dated) Something which amazes.
* 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 21,
* 1918 , , "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie ,
(obsolete) Madness, frenzy.
In obsolete|lang=en terms the difference between amazement and astound
is that amazement is (obsolete) madness, frenzy while astound is (obsolete) stunned; astounded; astonished.As a noun amazement
is (uncountable) the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.As a verb astound is
to astonish, bewilder or dazzle.As an adjective astound is
(obsolete) stunned; astounded; astonished.amazement
English
Noun
citation, passage=Eustace gaped at him in amazement . When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all.}}
- Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them.
- In the midst of ill rumours and amazements , his countenance changeth not.
- Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements , when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
- So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
- I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
References
* * * * * "amazement" in the Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus (Wordsmyth, 2002) * "
amazement" in Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (Cambridge University Press, 2007) * Oxford English Dictionary , second edition (1989) * Random House Webster's Unabridged Electronic Dictionary (1987-1996)