Word of the Day:
perplexity
What It Means
The state or quality of being perplexed.
Something that perplexes.
A measure of the accuracy with which a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.
Perplexity in Context
“There is no such thing as 'chance', which term only signifies the mind's perplexity in the face of events that spring from multiple causes.”
Did You Know?
From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.
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