Bafflement vs Puzzlement - What's the difference?
bafflement | puzzlement | Related terms |
(uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.
* 1920 , , The Bat , ch. 12:
(countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
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The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment
A puzzle.
*{{quote-news, year=2007, date=October 14, author=Alex Mindlin, title=1924, Through an Ancestor’s Eyes, work=New York Times
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Bafflement is a related term of puzzlement.
As nouns the difference between bafflement and puzzlement
is that bafflement is (uncountable) the state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused while puzzlement is the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.bafflement
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- "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.
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.
puzzlement
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