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Mazement vs Gazement - What's the difference?

mazement | gazement |

As nouns the difference between mazement and gazement

is that mazement is a trancelike state; amazement while gazement is (obsolete) view, stare.

mazement

English

Noun

(-)
  • A trancelike state; amazement

    • References

    *OED 2001

    gazement

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (obsolete) View, stare.
  • *1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.3:
  • *:Then forth he brought his snowy Florimele, / Whom Trompart had in keeping there beside, / Covered from peoples gazement with a vele […].