Bewilderment

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Bewilderment \Be*wil"der*ment\, n.
     1. The state of being bewildered.
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     2. A bewildering tangle or confusion.
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              He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid
              bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush.
                                                    --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  bewilderment
       n : confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: {obfuscation},
            {puzzlement}, {befuddlement}, {mystification}, {bafflement},
            {bemusement}]