astonishment

From astonish +‎ -ment.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əˈstɒnɪʃmənt/
• (US) IPA^(key): /əˈstɑːnɪʃmənt/

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astonishment (countable and uncountable, plural astonishments)

1. amazement, great surprise
2. An amazing thing or phenomenon.
   • 1964, Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory:

     Everything he had seen so far — the great chocolate river, the waterfall, the huge sucking pipes, the candy meadows, the Oompa-Loompas, the beautiful pink boat, and most of all, Mr. Willy Wonka himself — had been so astonishing that he began to wonder whether there could possibly be any more astonishments left.

• astonish
• astonished