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amazement

noun
/əˈmeɪz.mənt/

Etymology

From amaze + -ment.

  1. inherited from amase
  2. derived from *(s)meh₂-✻ — “to beckon, signal”
  3. inherited from āmasian — “to confuse, astonish”
  4. inherited from amased — “to bewilder, perplex”
  5. suffixed as amazement — “amaze + ment”

Definitions

  1. The condition of being amazed

    The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.

    • 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.

  2. A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.

    • 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.
    • In the midst of ill rumours and amazements, his countenance changeth not.
    • Certain points, crises, certain feelings, joys, griefs and amazements, when reviewed, must strike us as things wildered and whirling.

  3. Something which amazes.

    • So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers.
    • I believe the Urchin showed more enthusiasm over the stone and the robin than over any of the amazements that succeeded them.
  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. Madness, frenzy.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at amazement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at amazement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at amazement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA