| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. One that evokes great surprise and admiration: astonishment, marvel, miracle, phenomenon, prodigy, stunner, wonder, wonderment. Idioms: one for the books, the eighth wonder of the world. See GOOD. 2. A condition of intense public interest or excitement: brouhaha, stir1, uproar. Informal : to-do. Slang : hoo-hah. See EXCITE. 3. The capacity for or an act of responding to a stimulus: feeling, sense, sensibility, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sentiment. See AWARENESS.
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