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Consternation vs Constriction - What's the difference?

consternation | constriction |

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

(-)
  • Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
  • * ? , ,
    • It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
  • * The Awakening , ,
    • "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
  • * 2003 , Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion , chapter 17
    • Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation .

    constriction

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of constricting, the state of being constricted, or something that constricts
  • A narrow part of something; a stricture
  • A compression