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.
Something very surprising.
(colloquial)
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.
From astonish + -ment.
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