astonishment

English

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

Etymology

From astonish +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/
• IPA^(key): /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 any more astonishments left.

Related terms

• astonish
• astonished

Translations

amazement, great surprise

• Arabic: ذُهُول (ar) m (ḏuhūl)

  Egyptian Arabic: ذهول m (zuhūl)

• Armenian: զարմանք (hy) (zarmankʻ)
• Azerbaijani: təəccüb (az)
• Catalan: estorament m, sorpresa (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Danish: forbavselse
• Faroese: undran f
• Finnish: hämmästys (fi), hämmästyminen (fi), kummastus (fi), kummastuminen (fi)
• French: étonnement (fr) m
• Galician: abraio m, aglaio m, medoña f, infento m
• German: Staunen (de) n, Erstaunen (de) n, Verwunderung (de) f
• Greek: έκπληξη (el) f (ékplixi), κατάπληξη (el) f (katáplixi), σοκ (el) n (sok)

  Ancient: θάμβος n (thámbos)

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• Icelandic: undrun (is) f
• Interlingue:
• Irish: uafás m
• Italian: stupore (it) m, meraviglia (it) f, sorpresa (it) f, sbigottimento (it) m
• Japanese: 驚き (ja) (おどろき, odoroki), 驚愕 (ja) (きょうがく, kyōgaku)
• Malay: kekaguman
• Manx: ard-yindys m
• Polish: zdziwienie (pl) n, zaskoczenie (pl) n, zaskok m, zdziwko m (colloquial), zdumienie (pl) n, dziw (pl) m, niespodzianka (pl) f, osłupienie n
• Portuguese: surpresa (pt) f
• Romanian: uimire (ro) f, surprindere (ro) f
• Russian: удивле́ние (ru) n (udivlénije), изумле́ние (ru) n (izumlénije)
• Spanish: asombro (es) m, estupefacción (es) f, sorpresa (es) f, extrañeza (es) f
• Swedish: häpenhet (sv) c, förvåning (sv) c
• Turkish: şaşkınlık (tr), şaşırtı (tr), sürpriz (tr)

amazing thing

• Finnish: kummallisuus (fi)
• Portuguese: surpresa (pt) f
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• Swedish: överraskning (sv) c
• Turkish: şaşırtı (tr), sürpriz (tr)

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• Bulgarian: учудване (bg) (učudvane), удивление (bg) (udivlenie)
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• Italian: stupore (it)