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muddlement

muddlement noun: the state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization.

Noun

muddlement (countable and uncountable, plural muddlements)

  1. The state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization.
    • I am lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back into it, as I am a living sinner is more than I know!1857, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret - Volume 2, page 216
    • You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government.1859, Arthur Helps, Friends in Council - Volume 4, page 181

Examples of muddlement in a sentence

  • I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code.1927, Money Writes!, page 119:
  • The Opposition was charging the Government with muddlement and with mismanagement.1967, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 1328:
  • At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail.2016, Joseph Michael Sepesy, Word Dances III: Celebration:

Forms of muddlement

pluralmuddlements

Origin of muddlement

From muddle + -ment.

Questions about muddlement

What does muddlement mean?
Muddlement means the state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization.
How do you use muddlement in a sentence?
I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code.
What part of speech is muddlement?
Muddlement is a noun.
What is the plural of muddlement?
The plural of muddlement is muddlements.

Words near muddlement in the dictionary

  1. muddlehead
  2. muddleheaded
  3. muddleheadedly
  4. muddleheadedness
  5. muddleheads
  6. muddlement
  7. muddlements
  8. muddler
  9. muddlers
  10. muddles
  11. muddles along

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