stonishment

Noun

astonishment (countable and uncountable, plural astonishments)

1. The feeling or experience of being astonished; great surprise.
   • The class looked on in astonishment as their teacher proceeded to tear the pages out of the textbook.

   Synonyms:

   amazement, stupefaction, wonder, wonderment

2. Something very surprising.
   • (colloquial)

   Synonyms:

   marvel, stunner

3. (obsolete) Loss of physical sensation; inability to move a part of the body.
   • […] there followeth astonishment of the leg that is neere, that it can neither be stretched out right, nor he cannot go on his feet.1583, Philip Barrough, The Method of Phisicke, London: Thomas Vautroullier, Book 3, Chapter 37, p. 126

   Synonyms:

   paralysis, numbness

4. (obsolete) Loss of mental faculties, inability to think or use one's senses.
   • Thou hast shewed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 60:3

   Synonyms:

   stupor

5. (obsolete) Loss of composure or presence of mind.
   • […] where of his cruell rage
     Nigh dead with feare, and faint astonishment,
     Shee found them both in darkesome corner pent;1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, pages 35-36

   Synonyms:

   consternation, dismay