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befuddlement

befuddlement noun: the state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.

Noun

befuddlement (countable and uncountable, plural befuddlements)

  1. The state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.
    • His words struck me with a sense of befuddlement that lasted until I got home.
    • It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105

Synonyms of befuddlement

Forms of befuddlement

pluralbefuddlements

Origin of befuddlement

From befuddle + -ment.

Questions about befuddlement

What does befuddlement mean?
Befuddlement means the state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.
What part of speech is befuddlement?
Befuddlement is a noun.
What is the plural of befuddlement?
The plural of befuddlement is befuddlements.

Words near befuddlement in the dictionary

  1. befucking
  2. befucks
  3. befuddle
  4. befuddled
  5. befuddledness
  6. befuddlement
  7. befuddlements
  8. befuddler
  9. befuddlers
  10. befuddles
  11. befuddling

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