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Bafflement vs Perplexity - What's the difference?

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Bafflement is a related term of perplexity.


As nouns the difference between bafflement and perplexity

is that bafflement is (uncountable) the state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused while perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.

bafflement

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.
  • * 1920 , , The Bat , ch. 12:
    • "Have you any theory about this occurrence to-night?" She watched him eagerly as she asked the question.
    He made a gesture of bafflement .
    "None whatever—it's beyond me," he confessed.
  • (countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
  • * 2005 Dec. 16, , " Best of 2005: Music," Time :
    • The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names . . . make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement , it might well be.

    perplexity

    English

    Noun

    (perplexities)
  • The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
  • Something that perplexes.
  • * 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
    • The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities , stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
  • A measurement in information theory: see (Perplexity).