Astonishment vs Embarrassment - What's the difference?
astonishment | embarrassment |
amazement, great surprise
An amazing thing or phenomenon.
* 1964:
A state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.
A state of confusion arising from hesitation or difficulty in choosing.
A person or thing which is the cause of humiliation to another.
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(medical) Impairment of function due to disease: respiratory embarrassment .
As nouns the difference between astonishment and embarrassment
is that astonishment is amazement, great surprise while embarrassment is a state of discomfort arising from bashfulness or consciousness of having violated a social rule; humiliation.astonishment
English
Noun
- Everything he had seen so far--the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself--had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be anymore astonishments left.
embarrassment
English
Noun
(en noun)- ''Kevin, you are an embarrassment to this family.
- ''Losing this highly publicized case was an embarrassment to the firm.