astonishmentnoun/əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/

• 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.
  • 1630, John Milton, “On Shakespear” in Poems of Mr. John Milton, London: Ruth Raworth, 1645 p. 27, Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thy self a live-long Monument.
• 2

  Something very surprising.

  • (colloquial)
  • To find Ned Silverton among the habitual frequenters of Mrs. Hatch’s drawing-room was one of Lily’s first astonishments;
• 3

  obsoleteLoss 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.
  • […] whosoever maketh water in the same place where a dog hath newly pissed, so as both vrines be mingled together, shall immediatly find a coldnesse and astonishment in his loines,
• 4

  obsoleteLoss 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.
  • Upon the Stage he so charmed the people into astonishment with his babble, that he made them buy off amain his Drugs;
• 5

  obsoleteLoss 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;
  • […] as when a man ignorant of the Ceremonies of Court, comming into the presence of a greater Person than he is used to speak to, and stumbling at his entrance, to save himselfe from falling, lets slip his Cloake; to recover his Cloake, lets fall his Hat; and with one disorder after another, discovers his astonishment and rusticity.