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endazzlement

noun

Etymology

From endazzle + -ment or en- + dazzle + -ment.

  1. derived from dasen
  2. derived from *dusāną✻
  3. suffixed as dazzle — “daze + le”
  4. prefixed as endazzle — “en + dazzle”
  5. suffixed as endazzlement — “endazzle + ment”

Definitions

  1. Dazzlement, the condition of being dazzled.

    • The objects of desire and the brief period of endazzlement by the same, together with the discord in the bodily conditions brought about through violent passions, all this has long ago disappeared; […]
    • Six sudden beautiful girls at first look all of a piece. Only after a while, when the first endazzlement is over, can one distinguish between them.
    • […] we have either to snap out of the endazzlement of the ethereal and get our feet back on the ground or to untangle ourselves from the wooly webs of common sense.

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