Perplexity

Noun

 * 1) The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
 * 2) Something that perplexes.
 * 3) * 1942, The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 149)
 * 4) A measurement in information theory.

Adjectives for Perplexity
inevitable; great; dim; insoluble; unexplained; sad; natural; painful; unrighteous; mingled; hopeless; dangerous; broken-hearted.

Verbs for Perplexity
conceal—; flounder in—; grapple with ; giope In—; hesitate in—; relieve—; tremble in—; unravel—; view with—; —bewilders; —bothers; —burdens; —confuses; —darkens; —embarrasses; —enmeshes; —entangles; —hounds; —muddles; —nets; —overwhelms; —weaves.

Thesaurus
Chinese puzzle, Gordian knot, amorphousness, baffle, bafflement, baffling problem, befuddlement, bewilderment, bind, bother, botheration, brain twister, catch-22, chaos, cloud, complexity, complexness, complication, confoundment, confusion, convolution, crabbedness, crossword puzzle, crux, dark, darkness, daze, difficulty, dilemma, discombobulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcert, disconcertedness, disconcertion, disconcertment, disorder, disorganization, disorientation, distress, disturbance, doubt, embarrassment, enigma, enigmatic question, entanglement, fix, floorer, flummox, flurry, fluster, flutter, fog, fogginess, frenzy, fuddle, fuddlement, fuzziness, haze, impenetrability, indeterminateness, indistinctness, intricacy, intricateness, involution, involvement, jam, jigsaw puzzle, jumble, knot, knotty point, maze, mess, mind-boggler, mist, mistiness, muddle, muddlement, mumbo jumbo, murk, murkiness, mystery, mystification, node, nodus, nonplus, nut to crack, obfuscation, obscurantism, obscuration, obscurity, opacity, oxymoron, paradox, perplexed question, perturbation, pickle, plight, pons asinorum, poser, pother, predicament, problem, pucker, puzzle, puzzlement, puzzler, quandary, question, question mark, ramification, reconditeness, riddle, ruffle, scrape, shapelessness, shuffle, sixty-four dollar question, stew, sticker, stumper, subtlety, sweat, swivet, tanglement, teaser, technicality, tizzy, tough proposition, unassuredness, unclarity, unclearness, unplainness, unsettlement, upset, vagueness, vexed question, why

Etymology
From perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.

Translations

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 * Greek: σύγχυση


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 * : מבוכה (m"vucha)