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consternation

English

Etymology

From French consternation, from Latin constern?ti?.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /?k?n.st??ne?.??n/
  • (US) enPR: k?n?st?r.n?'sh?n, IPA(key): /?k?n.st??ne??.??n/
  • Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

consternation (countable and uncountable, plural consternations)

  1. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
    • 1899, Kate Chopin, The Awakening
      "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
    • 2003, Terrance Dicks & Barry Letts, Deadly Reunion, chapter 17:
      Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation.
    • February 27, 2006, Chuck Klosterman in Esquire, Invention's New Mother
      It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin constern?ti?. Morphologically, from consterner +? -ation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /k??s.t??.na.sj??/

Noun

consternation f (plural consternations)

  1. consternation

Further reading

  • “consternation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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fearfulness

English

Etymology

fearful +? -ness

Noun

fearfulness (usually uncountable, plural fearfulnesses)

  1. The quality of being fearful.

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