amazement

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of surprise and amazement
amazement
bewilderment
future shock
incredulity
shock
stupefaction
surprise
wonder
wonderment

Examples of astonishment

astonishment
The speed with which the requests from famous persons were treated can provoke nothing but astonishment.
If this sounds like pre-modern defeatism, it also indicates a way forward to the modern sublime in which astonishment forces a recoil to rational analysis.
The astonishment he professed was pure theatre for the record.
These are people just discovering the nature of the entrapment of their world on film, and often their fascinated, gawping astonishment is all too evident.
To my astonishment, the judges did not agree with me.
He shared his astonishment with many of his colleagues.
One might feel astonishment, perhaps awe before the whole, panentheistically qualified.
These anecdotes provoked gratifying looks of astonishment and plenty of questions as to who exactly was paying for this stuff.
The jeweled coffer was then opened, and to the great astonishment of the onlookers, a heart was found inside.
To their astonishment the two patients soon started leading more active lives.
Rather, the plan met with astonishment and opposition in most places.
Today a person's fright, astonishment, anger, excitement, sadness, aggressiveness and similar psychological states are regarded as important.
Perhaps to the astonishment of his opponents, he did not try to inscribe the incompatibility between materialism/ republicanism and spiritualism/monarchism in the brain.
The response to this confrontational poetics was most certainly astonishment.
This was exactly what transpired the next day, to everyone's great astonishment.
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