consternation

WOTD – 5 December 2009

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin consternātiō.

Pronunciation

• (UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.stəˈneɪ.ʃən/
• (US) enPR: ʹkŏn.stər'nā.shən, (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑn.stɚˈne͡ɪ.ʃən/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

consternation (countable and uncountable, plural consternations)

1. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
   • ?, Chuck Klosterman,

     It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.

   • The Awakening, Kate Chopin,

     "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.

   • 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 17

     Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.

Translations

amazement or horror; terror, combined with amazement; dismay

• Armenian: կոնստեռնացիոնիզմ (konsteṙnacʻionizm)
• Bulgarian: смайване (bg) n (smajvane), ужас (bg) m (užas)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 驚愕／惊愕 (zh) (jīng'è), 惊愕 (jīng'è)

• Danish: bestyrtelse c
• Finnish: tyrmistys
• French: consternation (fr) f, sidération (fr) f, accablement (fr) m, prostration (fr) f
• German: Bestürzung (de) f, Fassungslosigkeit (de) f
• Hebrew: תַּדְהֵמָה, בִּלְבּוּל (he), חֲרָדָה (he), פַּחַד (he)
• Hungarian: megdöbbenés (hu), szörnyűlködés
• Italian: costernazione (it) f
• Japanese: 驚愕 (きょうがく, kyōgaku)
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• Korean: 대경실색 (大驚失色, daegyeong silsaek)
• Latin: consternātiō f
• Manx: ard-yindys m
• Polish: konsternacja (pl) f
• Portuguese: consternação f
• Romanian: consternație (ro) f, consternare (ro) f
• Russian: у́жас (ru) m (úžas), оцепене́ние (ru) n (ocepenénije), испу́г (ru) m (ispúg)
• Scottish Gaelic: maoim f
• Serbo-Croatian: preneraženost f
• Spanish: consternación f, abatimiento (es), postración (es)
• Swedish: bestörtning (sv), häpnad (sv)
• Turkish: dehşet (tr)

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French

Noun

consternation f (plural consternations)

1. consternation

External links

• “consternation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.