Étonnement accompagné d'abattement de courage.
The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
ETYM Latin consternatio, from consternare to overome, perplex, an accessory form of consternere to throw down, prostrate; con + sternere to spread out, throw down: cf. French consternation. Related to Stratum.
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for refletion; terror, combined with amaxement; dismay.