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endazzlement en · NOUN

Etymology

From endazzle + -ment or en- + dazzle + -ment.

Meanings

  1. (no-plural, rare) Dazzlement, the condition of being dazzled.
    • Six sudden beautiful girls at first look all of a piece. Only after a while, when the first endazzlement is over, can one distinguish between them. 1953, William Sansom, “A Contest of Ladies”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 166, page 99:
    • The objects of desire and the brief period of endazzlement by the same, together with the discord in the bodily conditions brought about through violent passions, all this has long ago disappeared; […] 1891, Johann Friedrich Herbart, translated by Margaret K. Smith, A Text-book in Psychology, page 199:
    • […] we have either to snap out of the endazzlement of the ethereal and get our feet back on the ground or to untangle ourselves from the wooly webs of common sense. 2015, Naomi Scheman, “Writers, Authors, and the Extraordinary Ordinary”, in The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions, pages 46–47: