Consternation vs Perturbation - What's the difference?
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Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.
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(uncountable) Agitation; the state of being perturbed
(countable) A small change in a physical system, or more broadly any definable system (such as a biological or economic system)
(countable, astronomy, physics) Variation in an orbit due to the influence of external bodies
Consternation is a related term of perturbation.
As nouns the difference between consternation and perturbation
is that consternation is amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay while perturbation is (uncountable) agitation; the state of being perturbed.consternation
English
Noun
(-)- It was probably worth four millennia of consternation and regret.
- "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.
- Their audience had been listening in increasing consternation .