Amazement

Psychology
- Amazement

Amazement is that wide-eyed, jaw-dropping feeling you experience when something completely unexpected or extraordinary occurs—like seeing the northern lights for the first time, watching someone perform an impossible magic trick, or hearing excellent news out of nowhere. It’s a blend of wonder, awe, and surprise, often so powerful that it stops you in your tracks for a moment.

It can feel like your mind is racing to catch up with what just happened, trying to understand or appreciate the sheer scale and beauty of it. Sometimes amazement is joyful and uplifting; other times, it’s overwhelming in a quieter, more humbling way.

See also [ Plutchik's Wheel of Emotions ]

Emotions

Adoration • Affection • Aggravation • Agitation • Agony • Alarm • Alienation • Amazement • Amusement • Anger • Anguish • Annoyance • Anxiety • Apprehension • Arousal • Attraction • Bitterness • Bliss • Caring • Cheerfulness • Compassion • Contempt • Contentment • Crosspatch • Defeat • Dejection • Delight • Depression • Desire • Despair • Disappointment • Disgust • Dislike • Dismay • Displeasure • Distress • Dread • Eagerness • Ecstasy • Elation • Embarrassment • Enjoyment • Enthrallment • Enthusiasm • Envy • Euphoria • Exasperation • Excitement • Exhilaration • Fear • Ferocity • Fondness • Fright • Frustration • Fury • Gaiety • Gladness • Glee • Gloom • Grief • Guilt • Happiness • Hatred • Homesickness • Hope • Hopelessness • Horror • Hostility • Humiliation • Hurt • Hysteria • Infatuation • Insecurity • Insult • Irritation • Isolation • Jealousy • Jolliness • Joy • Jubilation • Liking • Loathing • Loneliness • Longing • Love • Lust • Melancholy • Misery • Mortification • Neglect • Nervousness • Optimism • Outrage • Panic • Passion • Pessimism • Pity • Pleasure • Pride • Rage • Rapture • Regret • Seasonal affective disorder • Rejection • Relief • Remorse • Resentment • Revulsion • Sadness • Satisfaction • Scorn • Sentimentality • Shame • Shock • Sorrow • Spite (sentiment) • Suffering • Surprise • Sympathy • Tenderness • Tenseness • Terror • Thrill • Torment • Uneasiness • Unhappiness • Vengefulness • Woe • Worry • Wrath • Zeal • Zest

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