Puzzlement vs Awe - What's the difference?
puzzlement | awe |
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
, passage=The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements . }}
A feeling of fear and reverence.
A feeling of amazement.
* 1918 , (Edgar Rice Burroughs), Chapter IV
* {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
, author=Anna Lena Phillips
, title=Sneaky Silk Moths
, volume=100, issue=2, page=172
, magazine=(American Scientist)
To inspire fear and reverence in.
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To control by inspiring dread.
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
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awe
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(-)- 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.
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.}}