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Fright vs Amazement - What's the difference?

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Fright is a related term of amazement.


As nouns the difference between fright and amazement

is that fright is a state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm while amazement is (uncountable) the condition of being amazed; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.

As a verb fright

is (archaic) to frighten.

fright

English

Noun

(wikipedia fright)
  • A state of terror excited by the sudden appearance of danger; sudden and violent fear, usually of short duration; a sudden alarm.
  • * 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.
  • Anything strange, ugly or shocking, producing a feeling of alarm or aversion.
  • * 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , I:
    • Her maids were old, and if she took a new one,
    You might be sure she was a perfect fright ;
    She did this during even her husband's life
    I recommend as much to every wife.

    Derived terms

    * fright wig

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (archaic) to frighten

    • amazement

    English

    Noun

  • (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 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.}}
  • (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
  • * 1682 , , The fiery tryal no strange thing , Samuel Sewell, Boston, p. 16,
    • 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.
  • * 1791 , "Character of the faithful Man," in Aphorisms concerning the Assurance of Faith , W. Young, Philadelphia, p. 60,
    • In the midst of ill rumours and amazements , his countenance changeth not.
  • * 1853 , , Villette , ch. 41,
    • Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements , when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.
  • (countable, dated) Something which amazes.
  • * 1913 , , The Valley of the Moon , ch. 21,
    • So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
  • * 1918 , , "The Urchin at the Zoo," in Mince Pie ,
    • I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
  • (obsolete) Madness, frenzy.

    • 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)