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Puzzlement vs Awe - What's the difference?

puzzlement | awe |

As nouns the difference between puzzlement and awe

is that puzzlement is the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment while awe is a feeling of fear and reverence.

As a verb awe is

to inspire fear and reverence in.

puzzlement

English

Noun

  • The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment
  • A puzzle.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 14, author=Alex Mindlin, title=1924, Through an Ancestor’s Eyes, work=New York Times citation
  • , passage=The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements . }}

    awe

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A feeling of fear and reverence.
  • A feeling of amazement.
  • * 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
  • For several minutes no one spoke; I think they must each have been as overcome by awe as was I. All about us was a flora and fauna as strange and wonderful to us as might have been those upon a distant planet had we suddenly been miraculously transported through ether to an unknown world.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , author=Anna Lena Phillips , title=Sneaky Silk Moths , volume=100, issue=2, page=172 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=Last spring, the periodical cicadas emerged across eastern North America. Their vast numbers and short above-ground life spans inspired awe and irritation in humans—and made for good meals for birds and small mammals.}}

    Derived terms

    * awe-inspiring * awesome * awestruck * awful

    Verb

    (aw)
  • To inspire fear and reverence in.
  • * '>citation
  • To control by inspiring dread.
  • Synonyms

    * (inspire reverence) enthral, enthrall; overwhelm

    Derived terms

    * awed * awesome * awe-inspiring * awful