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n. - The act of astounding; Marginal consciousness; A feeling of dumb astonishment.

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Usage examples (37)
  • The professor was noted for his stupefaction of the students
  • I drew back in stupefaction, but he hurried on.
  • Dominique Bussereau to express "stupefaction" that Paris-based Alstom SA had missed out.
  • He looked at it in a kind of stupefaction, as if he had been endowed with a trident, a sceptre, or a spade.
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