Conflated vs Confused - What's the difference?
conflated | confused |
(conflate)
To bring (things) together and fuse (them) into a single entity.
To mix together different elements.
To fail to properly distinguish or keep separate (things); to treat (them) as equivalent.
(biblical criticism) Combining elements from multiple versions of the same text.
* 1999 , Emanuel Tov, The Greek and Hebrew Bible: Collected Essays on the Septuagint :
(biblical criticism) A conflate text, one which conflates multiple version of a text together.
(confuse)
(lb) unable to think clearly or understand
(lb) disoriented
chaotic, jumbled or muddled
making no sense; illogical
embarrassed
As verbs the difference between conflated and confused
is that conflated is (conflate) while confused is (confuse).As an adjective confused is
(lb) unable to think clearly or understand.conflated
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(head)conflate
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Verb
(conflat)Synonyms
* (to bring together) fuse, meld * (mix together) mix, blend, coalesce, commingle, flux, immix, mergeAdjective
(-)- Why the redactor created this conflate version, despite its inconsistencies, is a matter of conjecture.