[f. ASTOUND v. + -MENT.] The condition of being stricken with amazement; profound astonishment.
1810. Coleridge, Friend (1818), III. 260. In wonder, says Aristotle, does philosophy begin: and in astoundment, says Plato, does all true philosophy finish.
1823. Lamb, Elia, xviii. 93/1. The fountains … which I have made … to the astoundment of the young urchins my contemporaries.
