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Beauty so sudden it briefly overrides your ability to speak.
means A person or thing so strikingly attractive or impressive that people stop and stare.
from Built from 'stun' plus '-er' — 'stun' traces back through Old French 'estoner' (to astonish, to daze) to Latin roots meaning 'thunder,' ultimately 'tonare,' to thunder. So a stunner knocks you senseless the way a thunderclap does, just with cheekbones instead of lightning. The slang sense — a dazzlingly good-looking person — emerged as a natural extension in the 19th century, when 'stunning' was already in use to mean 'remarkably striking.'
- origin
- from stun, literally to knock senseless
- usage
- works for faces, goals, and plot twists alike
- peak form
- always delivered as a one word sentence