astonishment

Astonishment, lithograph by Thomas Fairland after W. H. Hunt, c. 1870s

English

Etymology

From astonish +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/
• (US) IPA: /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/

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Noun

astonishment (countable and uncountable; plural astonishments)

1. amazement, great surprise
2. An amazing thing or phenomenon.
   • 1964: Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

     Everything he had seen so far--the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself--had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be anymore astonishments left.

Translations

amazement, great surprise

• Arabic: ذهول (ar) (ḏuhūl) m

  Egyptian Arabic: ذهول (zuhūl) m

• Armenian: զարմանք (hy) (zarmank’) 
• Catalan: sorpresa (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚愕 (cmn), 惊愕 (cmn) (jīng'è), 驚異 (cmn), 惊异 (cmn) (jīngyì)

• Finnish: hämmästys (fi), hämmästyminen (fi), kummastus (fi), kummastuminen (fi)

• French: étonnement (fr) m
• German: Staunen (de) n, Erstaunen (de) n, Verwunderung (de) f
• Japanese: 驚き (ja) (おどろき, odoroki), 驚愕 (ja) (きょうがく, kyōgaku)
• Manx: ard-yindys (gv) m
• Romanian: uimire (ro) f
• Russian: удивление (ru) (udivlénije) n , изумление (ru) (izumlénije) 
• Spanish: asombro (es) m, estupefacción (es) f, sorpresa (es) f

amazing thing

• Finnish: kummallisuus (fi)

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• Bulgarian: учудване (bg) (učudvane), удивление (bg) (udivlenie)

• Italian: stupore (it)

Related terms

• astonish
• astonished