Wiktionary
n. An instance of being startled; surprise.
Usage examples of "startlement".
Damon saw a young man and remembered, in startlement and welcome, that he had seen this once before.
In any event, for a fraction of a second the lights flashed bright and the now beardless gentleman, staring up in startlement, kicked for a frozen instant eye to eye with Cugel.
Her mother, after her first startlement, bathed and salved Aramina's scalp and the other scratches she had received from the rough handling.
His motion was stopped on the backstroke by a scream -a woman's shriek so sudden and so terrible that it sent reptiles cawing up in startlement from their high perches on the overlooking keep.
She paused on the bottom step and fumbled in her purse, withdrawing a cylinder that looked like some kind of chemical defense weapon, but even as she did so she looked up in startlement.
She made a show of startlement, but I wondered if she was repeating the words for effect.
Embra took some small satisfaction in seeing the startlement of the four Storn officers, even the hitherto imperturbed Coinmaster.
Weather's fine, there've been no startlements, nothin out there 'cept sand an' more sand.
It was a period of quiet punctuated by the startlements of water birds.