flabbergastment
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From flabbergast + -ment.
Noun
[edit]flabbergastment (uncountable)
- Synonym of flabbergast (“overwhelming shock or surprise”)[1]
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:surprise
- 1963, National Geographic, Vol. 122, National Geographic Society:
- It was the Wells-Fargo coach, the Deadwood coach of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, the coach from which steps that pulchritudinous schoolmarm from the East to the flabbergastment of gawping cowpokes.
- 1988, John Barth, Lost in the funhouse: fiction for print, tape, live voice, Anchor Press, page 69:
- I even attempted tears myself, but flabbergastment dried my eyes.
- 2002, Timothy Zahn, Angelmass, Macmillan, page 175:
- She had the immense satisfaction of watching him trip over his own tongue, a look of total flabbergastment flooding over his face.