Consternation vs Constriction - What's the difference?
consternation | constriction |
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts
A narrow part of something; a stricture
A compression
As nouns the difference between consternation and constriction
is that consternation is amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay while constriction is the act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts.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 .