consternation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

   "Out!" exclaimed her husband, with something like genuine consternation in his voice.

2. 2
   noun

   fear resulting from the awareness of danger

Etymology

From French consternation, from Latin consternātiō.