noun

• (uncountable) The condition of being amazed; a state of overwhelming wonder, as from surprise or sudden fear, horror, or admiration; astonishment.
  "Eustace gaped at him in amazement. When his urbanity dropped away from him, as now, he had an innocence of expression which was almost infantile. It was as if the world had never touched him at all."
• (countable, archaic) A particular feeling of wonder, surprise, fear, or horror.
  "Were believers thoroughly persuaded of what God meaneth, by these things, they would not be so liable to those frights and amazements which distract and disturb them."
• (countable, dated) Something which amazes.
  "So impossible did it seem that such an amazement of horse-flesh could ever be hers."
• (obsolete) Madness, frenzy.