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Puzzlement   /pˈəzəlmənt/   Listen
Puzzlement

noun
1.
Confusion resulting from failure to understand.  Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation.





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"Puzzlement" Quotes from Famous Books



... Shearson, with such a shaken flabbiness of vehemence that both Hal and Ellis laughed, though the former felt an uneasy puzzlement. ...
— The Clarion • Samuel Hopkins Adams
... the speaker's surprise, there followed an interval of silence, and his puzzlement showed in the knitting of his brows. "You have the letters, haven't you?" ...
— Within the Law - From the Play of Bayard Veiller • Marvin Dana
... been markedly listless, heavy-eyed and abstracted during the course of the dinner, a point which Larssen had noted with some puzzlement. His mind had worked over the reasons for it without arriving at any definite conclusion. But now, at this unexpected announcement, her eyes ...
— Swirling Waters • Max Rittenberg


Words linked to "Puzzlement" :   disarray, bafflement, muddiness, puzzle, confusion, mental confusion, confusedness


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