Amazement vs Fascinated - What's the difference?
amazement | fascinated |
(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.
(fascinate)
To evoke an intense interest or attraction in someone
To make someone hold motionless; to spellbind
To be irresistibly charming or attractive to
As a noun amazement
is the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.As a verb fascinated is
past tense of fascinate.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)
fascinated
English
Verb
(head)fascinate
English
Verb
(fascinat)- The flickering TV fascinated the cat.
- We were fascinated by the potter's skill.
- Her gait fascinates all men.