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Puzzlement vs Discomposure - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between puzzlement and discomposure

is that puzzlement is the confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment while discomposure is the state of being discomposed.

puzzlement

English

Noun

  • 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 citation
    • , passage=The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements . }}

    discomposure

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • The state of being discomposed.
  • * 1719,
    • And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things......
  • (obsolete) Discordance; disagreement of parts.

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