Home › Words › O › obstupefactionobstupefactionobstupefaction means stupefaction.EtymologyLatin obstupefacere (“to stupefy”).nounstupefactione.g.“what a black kind of obstupefaction” — 1640, I. H. [i.e., James Howell], ΔΕΝΔΡΟΛΟΓΊΑ [DENDROLOGIA]. Dodona’s Grove, or, The Vocall Forrest, London: […] T[homas] B[adger] for H. Mosley [i.e., Humphrey Moseley] […], →OCLC:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).