Astonishment  

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"The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature, when those causes operate most powerfully, is astonishment: and astonishment is that state of the soul in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror." --A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful () by Edmund Burke

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Astonishment is amazement, great surprise, or an amazing thing or phenomenon.

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