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Bewilderment synonyms

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befuddlement
The characteristic of being befuddled.
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  1. The characteristic of being befuddled.
bewilderedness
The state or quality of being bewildered.
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  1. The state or quality of being bewildered.
daze
A dazed condition
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  1. A dazed condition
  2. A stunned or bewildered condition:
fog
A dense layer of cloud lying close to the surface of the ground or water and reducing visibility to less than 1 km (0.62 mi). Fog occurs when the air temperature becomes identical, or nearly identical, to the dew point.
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  1. A dense layer of cloud lying close to the surface of the ground or water and reducing visibility to less than 1 km (0.62 mi). Fog occurs when the air temperature becomes identical, or nearly identical, to the dew point.
  2. A similar mass of smoke, dust, etc. obscuring the atmosphere
  3. Something that obscures or conceals; a haze:
muddle
Mental confusion
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  1. Mental confusion
  2. A state of mental confusion.
  3. A confused or disordered condition; mess, jumble, etc.
mystification
The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
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  1. The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
  2. The fact or condition of being mystified.
  3. Something intended to mystify.
perplexity
Something that perplexes:
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  1. Something that perplexes:
  2. The condition of being perplexed; bewilderment; confusion
  3. Something that is perplexed, or complicated
puzzlement
A puzzle.
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  1. A puzzle.
  2. The state of being confused or baffled; perplexity.
stupefaction
Great astonishment or consternation.
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  1. Great astonishment or consternation.
  2. The act or an instance of stupefying.
  3. Stunned amazement or utter bewilderment
stupor
Mental or moral dullness or apathy
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  1. Mental or moral dullness or apathy
  2. A state of reduced sensibility or consciousness:
  3. A state in which the mind and senses are dulled; partial or complete loss of sensibility, as from the use of a narcotic or from shock
trance
A condition of great mental concentration or abstraction, esp. one induced by religious fervor or mysticism
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  1. A condition of great mental concentration or abstraction, esp. one induced by religious fervor or mysticism
  2. In spiritualistic belief, a condition in which a medium passes under the control of some external force, as for the transmission of communications from the dead during a séance
  3. A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often an hypnotic effect.
Find another word for bewilderment. In this page you can discover 13 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for bewilderment, like: befuddlement, bewilderedness, daze, discombobulation, fog, muddle, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, stupefaction and stupor.

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  • Her hand paused as she stared in bewilderment at what sat in the bottom of the bath tub.

  • On the 1st of May following the king suddenly broke up a tournament at Greenwich, leaving the company in bewilderment and consternation.

  • Uncertain how to respond, Deidre laughed uncomfortably at the amount of bewilderment his question contained.

  • The delights of love are made to stand for the raptures of union with the divine, the tavern symbolizes an oratory, and intoxication is the bewilderment of sense before the surpassing vision.

  • This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

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