surprisement

English

Etymology

From surprise +‎ -ment.

Noun

surprisement (uncountable) (rare)

  1. The act of surprising.
  2. The state of being surprised; surprise.
    Synonym: surprisedness
    • 1996 January 24, K Bear 4, “Browns Fans Are Freaks: Says a Maryland Poster”, in alt.sports.football.pro.cleve-browns‎[1] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      The sin tax of 1990 has just expired. The next day, you go to your local convenient store, hoping that your pack of cigarettes has dropped in cost from $2.20 to $2.12. To your surprisement, the price is the same.
    • 1998 October 28, Tom, “need h files...”, in comp.lang.c‎[2] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      I have tried taking the h files that i got with borland C++ on the cover of a mag,and putting them into the compiler, but it doesn't work... not to my surprisement, as nothing seems to be working at the mo. :o(
    • 1999 December 30, Andrew Morin, “Weird thing happened in syndication today”, in alt.tv.simpsons‎[3] (Usenet), archived from the original on 7 December 2025:
      I live up North, so you can understand my surprisement when we turned on simpsons[sic] to hear it in Spanish.

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