Why this word is great
STUPEFACTION — [Noun] A state of being stunned, dazed, or rendered insensible, whether from shock, amazement, or a physical agent. From Middle French stupéfaction, from Latin stupefaciō ("to strike dumb, stun"), from stupeō ("to be stunned, amazed") + faciō ("to make, do"). Unlike bewilderment, which flutters with confused questions, or awe, which elevates with reverence, stupefaction is a profound arrest of all faculties, a blunt-force trauma to comprehension. It is the slack-jawed silence that follows catastrophic news, the vacant stare of an animal caught in oncoming headlamps, or the heavy, woolen numbness induced by a potent anesthetic—a brute cessation of thought where the world floods in and the mind's circuit breaker trips, a forced reset in the face of the utterly inassimilable.