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puzzlement
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun puzzlement has 1 sense
- puzzlement(n = noun.cognition) bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, mystification, obfuscation - confusion resulting from failure to understand; Array is a kind of confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness
Derived forms verb puzzle1, verb puzzle2
CIDE DICTIONARY
puzzlement, n.
The state of being puzzled; perplexity. Miss Mitford. [1913 Webster]
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