flabbergastation

noun

Etymology

From flabbergast + -ation.

Definitions

  1. Bewildered shock or surprise

    Bewildered shock or surprise; the state or condition of being flabbergasted.

    • We scarcely remember to have ever seen any respectable party in a greater state of flabbergastation than the writer of some observations in Mb. Cobden's Russo-Manchesterian organ, the Morning Star, of Thursday, December the fourth.
    • I can recall my flabbergastation when in the house of a Jutlander of the middle class I heard him holding fluent converse with his children in some heathen dialect...
  2. The act of confounding or bewildering.

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