WONDERMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wonderment mean? 

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

1. the feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• WONDERMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The feeling aroused by something strange and surprising

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

admiration; wonder; wonderment

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

amazement; astonishment (the feeling that accompanies something extremely surprising)

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

awe (an overwhelming feeling of wonder or admiration)

Derivation:

wonder (be amazed at)

 Context examples 

Alleyne, however, continued with little cries of admiration and of wonderment to turn from the walls to the table and yet again to the walls.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She had stepped out beside me, and I regarded her with wonderment.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

The housekeeper and her husband were both of that decent phlegmatic order of people, to whom one may at any time safely communicate a remarkable piece of news without incurring the danger of having one's ears pierced by some shrill ejaculation, and subsequently stunned by a torrent of wordy wonderment.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Yet I will not deny that you have pictured the castle as well as I could have done myself, and I am full of wonderment at all that I have heard and seen.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The three comrades dropped behind and followed: Aylward much the lighter for having accomplished his mission, Alleyne full of wonderment at the humble bearing of so renowned a captain, and John loud with snorts and sneers, which spoke his disappointment and contempt.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)