Word Meanings - STUPEFACTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of STUPEFACTION)

• Astonishment
• Wonder
• surprise
• marvel
• amazement
• admiration
• awe
• bewilderment
• stupefaction
• fascination

Related words: (words related to STUPEFACTION)

• WONDERSTRUCK
  Struck with wonder, admiration, or surprise. Dryden.
• WONDER
  OS. wundar, OHG. wuntar, G. wunder, Icel. undr, Sw. & Dan. under, and perhaps to Gr. 1. That emotion which is excited by novelty, or the presentation to the sight or mind of something new, unusual, strange, great, extraordinary, or not
• WONDERFUL
  Adapted to excite wonder or admiration; surprising; strange; astonishing. Syn. -- Marvelous; amazing. See Marvelous. -- Won"der*ful*ly, adv. -- Won"der*ful*ness, n.
• MARVELOUS
  1. Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful. This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Ps. cxiii. 23. 2. Partaking of the character of miracle, or superna The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially
• STUPEFACTION
  The act of stupefying, or the state of being stupefied. Resistance of the dictates of conscience brings a hardness and stupefaction upon it. South.
• SURPRISE
  1. The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise. 2. The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion
• WONDERLAND
  A land full of wonders, or marvels. M. Arnold.
• WONDERWORK
  A wonderful work or act; a prodigy; a miracle. Such as in strange land He found in wonderworks of God and Nature's hand. Byron.
• WONDERLY
  Wonderfully; wondrously. Chaucer.
• WONDERINGLY
  In a wondering manner.
• WONDERMENT
  Surprise; astonishment; a wonderful appearance; a wonder. Bacon. All the common sights they view, Their wonderment engage. Sir W. Scott.
• WONDER-WORKER
  One who performs wonders, or miracles.
• ADMIRATION
  1. Wonder; astonishment. Season your admiration for a while. Shak. 2. Wonder mingled with approbation or delight; an emotion excited by a person or thing possessed of wonderful or high excellence; as, admiration of a beautiful woman,
• FASCINATION
  1. The act of fascinating, bewhiching, or enchanting; enchantment; witchcraft; the exercise of a powerful or irresistible influence on the affections or passions; unseen, inexplicable influence. The Turks hang old rags . . . upon their fairest
• BEWILDERMENT
  1. The state of being bewildered. 2. A bewildering tangle or confusion. He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush. Hawthorne.
• WONDEROUS
  See WONDROUS
• SURPRISEMENT
  Surprisal. Daniel.
• MARVELOUSLY
  In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
• WONDER-WORKING
  Doing wonders or surprising things.
• WONDERER
  One who wonders.
• MARVEL
  wonderful things, pl., fr. mirabilis wonderful, fr. mirari to wonder 1. That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle. I will do marvels such as have not been done. Ex. xxxiv. 10. Nature's sweet marvel undefiled. Emerson. 2. Wonder. "Use lessens
• SELF-ADMIRATION
  Admiration of one's self.
• BEWONDER
  1. To fill with wonder. 2. To wonder at; to admire.
• UNWONDER
  To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain. Fuller.