nonplussation
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "And now a spectacle presented itself which set the old professor’s wits altogether abroad, […] gazing blankly at the strangers, with features expressive of amazement, strong curiosity, and complete “nonplussation”[…]"
- "[…] arrives at the height of "nonplussation" when his father meets him and his fashionable affianced, and says, "my son, vot young gal is that?""
- "They stared after it with a gape of utter nonplussation “ And my internal spirit cut a caper,” as the poet sublimely says, for I could not have slept at night if those crows had enjoyed their disreputable meal."
- "If she decided to have the baby, could she pass it off as his? He was presumably familiar with the standard human gestation period. “I'm pregnant,” she said. A period of nonplussation “I only took the test last night. I haven't seen a doctor. But I'm late and it was positive. Faintly positive, but ...” “Huh.”"
Etymology
From nonplus + -ation.