different between astounded vs astoundedness

English

Verb

astounded

1. simple past tense and past participle of astound

Adjective

astounded (comparative more astounded, superlative most astounded)

1. Surprised, amazed, astonished or bewildered.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, lines 279-282,^[1]

     […] now they lye

     Groveling and prostrate on yon Lake of Fire,

     As we erewhile, astounded and amaz’d,

     No wonder, fall’n such a pernicious highth.

   • 1774, Thomas Hull, Richard Plantagenet: A Legendary Tale, London: J. Bell, p. 13,^[2]

     […] wrapt in Suspense

     And Fear I stood, yet knew not what I fear’d;

     When straight to my appall’d, astounded Sense

     A Man of noble Port and Mien appear’d.

   • 1844, Edgar Allan Poe, “The Spectacles” in The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, New York: W.J. Widdleton, Volume 2, p. 327,^[3]

     Had a thunderbolt fallen at my feet I could not have been more thoroughly astounded […]

   • 1969, Margaret Atwood, The Edible Woman, New York: Popular Library, 1976, Chapter 19, p. 168,^[4]

     The housewife was to take a sip of the real juice, watch the interviewer mix the Instant right before her astounded eyes, and then try the result, impressed, possibly, by its quickness and ease […]

Derived terms

• astoundedly
• astoundedness

Translations

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Etymology

astounded +? -ness

Noun

astoundedness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state of being astounded; astonishment.