AMAZEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amazement mean? 

• AMAZEMENT (noun)
  The noun AMAZEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising

  Familiarity information: AMAZEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AMAZEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

amazement; astonishment

Context example:

he looked at me in astonishment

Hypernyms ("amazement" is a kind of...):

feeling (the experiencing of affective and emotional states)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "amazement"):

admiration; wonder; wonderment (the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising)

surprise (the astonishment you feel when something totally unexpected happens to you)

stupefaction (a feeling of stupefied astonishment)

Derivation:

amaze (affect with wonder)

 Context examples 

The detective stared at the newcomer with blank amazement.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had recognized her with amazement, for Miss Dartle.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I felt very weak, and in the weakness lost something of the amazement at what had occurred.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The King stared at him in amazement.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Slowly the mast swung in until it balanced at right angles across the rail; and then I discovered to my amazement that there was no need for Maud to slack away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The Colonel and I stared at him in amazement.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The prisoner had raised himself with some difficulty upon the sofa and was staring with a strange mixture of amazement and hatred at his captor.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Both opened their eyes at this, and stared at Alleyne with as much amazement as he had shown at them.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My uncle stopped and looked at him in amazement.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This new concept was a perpetual amazement to Martin, and he found himself engaged continually in tracing the relationship between all things under the sun and on the other side of the sun.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)