Amazement vs Panic - What's the difference?
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(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.
Pertaining to the god Pan.
Of fear, fright etc: sudden or overwhelming (attributed by the ancient Greeks to the influence of ).
*, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, pp.57-8:
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p.537:
* 1993 , James Michie, trans. Ovid, The Art of Love , Book II:
Overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic , bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact.
*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 *1994 , (Stephen Fry), (The Hippopotamus) Chapter 2
*:With a bolt of fright he remembered that there was no bathroom in the Hobhouse Room. He leapt along the corridor in a panic , stopping by the long-case clock at the end where he flattened himself against the wall.
Rapid reduction in asset prices due to broad efforts to raise cash in anticipation of continuing decline in asset prices.
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To feel overwhelming fear.
(botany) A plant of the genus Panicum .
As nouns the difference between amazement and panic
is that amazement is the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment while panic is overpowering fright, often affecting groups of people or animals.As an adjective panic is
pertaining to the god Pan.As a verb panic is
to feel overwhelming fear.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)
panic
English
(wikipedia panic)Etymology 1
From (etyl) panique, from (etyl) . is the god of woods and fields who was the source of mysterious sounds that caused contagious, groundless fear in herds and crowds, or in people in lonely spots.Alternative forms
* panick (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- All things were there in a disordered confusion, and in a confused furie, untill such time as by praiers and sacrifices they had appeased the wrath of their Gods. They call it to this day, the Panike terror.
- At that moment a flight of birds passed close overhead, and at the whirr of their wings a panic fear seized her.
- Terrified, he looked down from the skies / At the waves, and panic blackness filled his eyes.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Meanwhile Nanny Broome was recovering from her initial panic and seemed anxious to make up for any kudos she might have lost, by exerting her personality to the utmost. She took the policeman's helmet and placed it on a chair, and unfolded his tunic to shake it and fold it up again for him.}}