Awe

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Awe is an emotion that is like wonder but less joyous. It can be seen as a combination of surprise and fear.

Awe can be seen as a reaction to a person or animal seeing something shocking, bad or beautiful.

Awe Media

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  Destruction of Tyre by John Martin (1840)

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  Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (1818) by German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich

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  The Great Day of His Wrath by John Martin

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  This Atlanta lightning strike may have inspired awe.

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  Painting by German Romantic landscape painter Caspar David Friedrich conveying a sense of awe and wonder at a natural sunset