stupefaction

Main Entry:
perplexity [per-plek-si-tee]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: daze
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, discombobulation, distraction, fog*, gauze, glaze, haze, lala-land, maze, muddle, muddledness, mystification, nadaville, narcosis, puzzlement, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance
Main Entry: vertiginousness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dizziness
Synonyms: befuddlement, bewilderment, distraction, gauze, giddiness, glaze, haze, lala-land, lightheadedness, maze, muddledness, nadaville, narcosis, shock, stupefaction, stupor, trance, vertigo, wooziness
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Main Entry: astonishment
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
abracadabrant, agape, aghast, all agog, awe, consterned, donnered, extonious, frappant, inconceivable, incredible, indescribable, ineffable, inenarrable, inexpressible, inimaginable, like a duck in thunder, lost in amazement, lost in astonishment, lost in wonder, marvelous, miraculous, mirandous, monstrous, moon, nefandous, open, passing strange, planet, selcouth, spell, strange, striking, stupendous, surprised, surprising, thunderstruck, unable to believe one's senses, unexpected, unheard of, unimaginable, unspeakable, unutterable, wonder, wonderful
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Main Entry: surprise
Part of Speech: noun, verb
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Adjectives:
anoetic, blutterbunged, ferly, gloppened, imprevisible, inattentive, inopinate, mirific, serendipitous, startling, struck, sudden, surprised, unanticipated, unaware, unexpected, unforeseen, unwarned
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Insensibility.
Synonyms:
-nouns
insensibility, insensibleness; moral insensibility; inertness, inertia; vis inertiae; impassiblity, impassiblenesss; inappetency, apathy, phlegm, dullness, hebetude, supineness, lukewarmness., cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, impertubation (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness., torpor, torpidity; obstupefaction, lethargy, coma, trance; sleep; suspended animation; stupor, stupefaction; paralysis, palsy; numbness (physical insensibility)., neutrality; quietism, vegetation.
-verbs
be insensible; have a rhinoceros hide; show insensibility; not mind, not care, not be affected by; have no desire for; have no interest in, feel no interest in, take no interest in; nil admirari; not care a straw (unimportance) for; disregard (neglect); set at naught (make light of); turn a deaf ear to (inattention); vegetate., render insensible, render callous; blunt, obtund, numb, benumb, paralyze, deaden, hebetate, stun, stupefy; brutify; brutalize; chloroform; assify., inure; harden the heart; steel, caseharden, sear.
-adjectives
insensible, unconscious; impassive, impassible; blind to, deaf to, dead to; unsusceptible, insusceptible; unimpressionable, unimpressible; passionless, spiritless, heartless, soulless; unfeeling, unmoral., apathetic; leuco-, phlegmatic; dull, frigid; cold blooded, cold hearted; cold as charity; flat, maudlin, obtuse, inert, supine, sluggish, torpid, torpedinous, torporific; sleepy (inactive); lanquid, half-hearted, tame; numbed; comatose; anaesthetic; stupefied, chloroformed, palsy-stricken., indifferent, lukewarm; careless, mindless, regardless; inattentive; neglectful; disregarding.
-adverbs
insensibly; aequo animo; without being moved, without being touched, without being impressed; in cold blood; with dry eyes, with withers unwrung.
-phrases
never mind; macht nichts [German], it is of no consequence (unimportant) [more]; it cannot be helped; nothing coming amiss; it is all the same to, it is all one
Antonyms: sensibility
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Wonder.
Category: 4. Contemplative Affections
Synonyms:
-nouns
wonder, marvel; astonishment, amazement, wonderment, bewilderment; amazedness; admiration, awe; stupor, stupefaction; stound, fascination; sensation; surprise (inexpectation)., note of admiration; thaumaturgy(sorcery).
-verbs
wonder, marvel, admire; be surprised; start; stare; open one's eyes, rub one's eyes, turn up one's eyes; gloar; gape, open one's mouth, hold one's breath; look aghast, stand aghast, stand agog; look blank (disappointment); tomber des nues; not believe one's eyes, not believe one's ears, not believe one's senses., not be able to account for (unintelligible); not know whether one stands on one's head or one's heels., surprise, astonish, amaze, astound; dumfound, dumfounder; startle, dazzle; daze; strike, strike with wonder, strike with awe; electrify; stun, stupefy, petrify, confound, bewilder, flabbergast, stagger, throw on one's beam ends, fascinate, turn the head, take away one's breath, strike dumb; make one's hair stand on end, make one's tongue cleave to the roof of one's mouth; make one stare., take by surprise (be unexpected)., be wonderful; beggar description, beggar the imagination, baffle description; stagger belief.
-adjectives
surprised; aghast, all agog, breathless, agape; open-mouthed; awestruck, thunderstruck, moonstruck, planet-struck; spellbound; lost in amazement, lost in wonder, lost in astonishment; struck all of a heap, unable to believe one's senses, like a duck ion thunder., wonderful, wondrous; surprising; unexpected; unheard of; mysterious (inexplicable); miraculous. indescribable, inexpressible, ineffable; unutterable, unspeakable., monstrous, prodigious, stupendous, marvelous; inconceivable, incredible; inimaginable, unimaginable; strange (uncommon); passing strange., striking; overwhelming; wonder-working.
-adverbs
wonderfully; fearfully; for a wonder, in the name of wonder; strange to say; mirabile dictu, mirabile visu; to one's great surprise., with wonder, with gaping mouth; with open eyes, with upturned eyes.
-phrases
vox faucibus haesit; one's hair standing on end.
Antonyms: expectance (absence of wonder)
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Insensibility to touch.] Numbness.
Category: 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch
Synonyms:
-nouns
numbness (physical insensibility); anaesthesia; pins and needles.
-verbs
-adjectives
numb; benumbed; deadened; intangible, impalpable.
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