Astonishment is a state or feeling that normally affects people and that is triggered after appreciating something totally out of the ordinary. Let's say that the abnormality that something shows, either for better or for worse or for example when someone does something that they would never have expected to end up doing are some issues that can lead to someone's astonishment.
It is a fairly normal and common feeling among people, that is, it is not something that is hardly experienced far from it, on the contrary, we are usually amazed with various issues.
If we see a tremendously tall person we will be amazed; If our sister who hates cleaning, suddenly cleans the whole house and leaves it shiny, it will cause us a flower of astonishment; If a soccer team was losing 4 to 0 and traces the result with a 5 to 4, we will also feel great astonishment.
This concept is closely related to other widely used concepts in our language such as: surprise and admiration, that is, amazement is often used instead of those mentioned to express the same thing.
As we can see, amazement has as a common denominator of its appearance the development of an event that was not expected, that was not foreseen or that comes out of what we normally see.
It is worth clarifying that the surprise that will bring out and disturb the person in question may be due to a positive event, which will bring benefits to this or the rest of the people, or on the contrary, it is an unpleasant situation, which will surprise more that nothing because it is something really unexpected, or having been caused by a situation or done very, very strange.
For example, the discovery of a vaccine against a deadly disease, such as cancer or AIDS, can be the cause of an astonishment that will unleash the great admiration of the people and that at first it will paralyze them with surprise more than anything. because after so much time and struggle he got it and then, that amazement will be the consequence of, for example, in the public space not talking about anything other than it.
Meanwhile and on the other hand, for example, the death of a well-known person, relatively young and who until yesterday was apparently healthy and suddenly dies right off the bat, will also be a trigger of astonishment, which is obviously framed within the unpleasant astonishing situations I mentioned above.
Likewise, an unusual invention, which escapes what our mind can understand, can also be a cause for astonishment.
Astonishment is an emotion that is distinguished by presenting an important variety of physical signs that by the way are the ones that allow us to recognize it, identify it as such, among the most common that are presented we can cite: maximum elevation of the eyebrows, huge opening of the eyes, the open mouth, accompanied by an elevation of the eyelids, grasping with the hands some part of the body, usually the face or the chest.
Regarding the duration, we must mark that the astonishment lasts only an instant, together with those indicated physical signs, then it gives way to happiness or sadness, as appropriate.
The concept that is opposed to that of astonishment is that of apathy and this is precisely because apathy is an emotion that is also experienced with ease and recurrence and that is characterized by the total absence of interest in something, indifference prevails.
