endazzlement

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English

Etymology

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

Noun

endazzlement (plural not attested)

  1. (rare) Dazzlement, the condition of being dazzled.
    • 1891, Johann Friedrich Herbart, translated by Margaret K. Smith, A Text-book in Psychology, page 199:
      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; […]
    • 1953, William Sansom, “A Contest of Ladies”, in The Cornhill Magazine, volume 166, page 99:
      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.
    • 2015, Naomi Scheman, “Writers, Authors, and the Extraordinary Ordinary”, in The Future of Scholarly Writing: Critical Interventions, pages 46–47:
      […] 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.