Meaning of PERPLEXITY
| Pronunciation: | | pur'pleksitee
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 WordNet Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | [n] trouble or confusion resulting from complexity |
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| | See Also: | | closed book, confusion, dilemma, disarray, enigma, maze, mental confusion, mystery, quandary, secret, snarl, tangle | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Per*plex"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Perplexities}. [L.
perplexitas: cf. F. perplexit['e].]
The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled;
complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind
through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment;
doubt.
By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more.
--Milton.
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| Computing Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | The geometric mean of the number of words which may follow any given word for a certain lexicon and grammar. |
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| | Related Terms: | | amorphousness, baffle, bafflement, baffling problem, befuddlement, bewilderment, bind, bother, botheration, brain twister, catch-22, chaos, Chinese puzzle, 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, Gordian knot, 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 |
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