Difference between Dismay and Consternation

DISMAY vs CONSTERNATION: NOUN

The feeling of despair in the face of obstacles
A sudden or complete loss of courage in the face of trouble or danger.
Sudden or complete loss of courage; despairing fear or apprehension; discouraged or terrified amazement; utter disheartenment.
Ruin; defeat; destruction.
Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
Loss of courage and firmness through fear; overwhelming and disabling terror; a sinking of the spirits; consternation.
Condition fitted to dismay; ruin.
Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. (see alarm); discouragement.

Fear resulting from the awareness of danger
A state of great alarm, agitation, or dismay.
Astonishment combined with terror; amazement that confounds the faculties and incapacitates for deliberate thought and action; extreme surprise, with confusion and panic.
Synonyms Apprehension, Fright, etc. See alarm.
Amazement or horror that confounds the faculties, and incapacitates for reflection; terror, combined with amazement; dismay.

To disable with alarm or apprehensions; to depress the spirits or courage of; to deprive or firmness and energy through fear; to daunt; to appall; to terrify.
To render lifeless; to subdue; to disquiet.
To upset or distress.
To cause to lose enthusiasm or resolution; disillusion or discourage: : discourage.

To break down the courage of, as by sudden danger or insuperable difficulty; overcome with fear of impending calamity or failure; fill with despairing apprehension; utterly dishearten: usually in the past participle.
To defeat by sudden onslaught; put to rout.
To disquiet; trouble: usually reflexive.
Fill with apprehension or alarm
Make downhearted
Lower someone's spirits
Synonyms To appal, daunt, dispirit, deject, frighten, paralyse, demoralize.
To be daunted; stand aghast with fear; be confounded with terror.

Chagrin, Astonishment, Deject, Cast down, Get down, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Disheartenment, Alarm, Appall, Appal, Horrify, Consternation

Distress, Regret, Shock, Sympathy, Sadness, Surprise, Concern, Amazement, Anguish, Confusion, Astonishment, Outrage, Bewilderment, Alarm, Dismay

Frustration, Indignation, Bewilderment, Disgust, Amazement, Astonishment, Deject, Demoralize, Depress, Dispirit, Discouragement, Alarm, Appal, Horrify, Consternation

Distress, Regret, Shock, Sympathy, Sadness, Surprise, Concern, Amazement, Anguish, Confusion, Astonishment, Outrage, Bewilderment, Alarm, Dismay

To my consternation, I could not find the error.
Michael: No need for consternation, everything is under control.
His hands had swollen obscenely, in some consternation!
This caused consternation among Christians in the West.
To her consternation, but she did not flinch.
Adflhiral Steele recounted his consternation over this arrange.
To my consternation, however, he was not there.
And they did, to the consternation of many.
Though filled with consternation, Hiawatha recognized the summons.
Was she bemused or did she feel consternation, which consternation would have made me feel an even greater consternation?