Consternation vs Affright - What's the difference?
consternation | affright | Related terms |
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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Consternation is a related term of affright.
As nouns the difference between consternation and affright
is that consternation is amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay while affright is great fear, terror, fright.As a verb affright is
to terrify, to frighten, to inspire fright.consternation
English
Noun
(-)- It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
- "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
- Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation .
