Associations to the word «Consternation»

Wiktionary

CONSTERNATION, noun. Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

Dictionary definition

CONSTERNATION, noun. Fear resulting from the awareness of danger.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne