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Incomprehensible vs Puzzling - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between incomprehensible and puzzling

is that incomprehensible is impossible or very difficult to understand while puzzling is difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.

As a verb puzzling is

present participle of lang=en.

As a noun puzzling is

time spent pondering something confusing.

incomprehensible

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Impossible or very difficult to understand.
  • * Greg Bear, Heads , 1990
    • He shook his head. 'It's not only undefined, it's incomprehensible. Even the QL is befuddled by it and can't give me straight answers.'
  • * Mark Twain, Letters From The Earth , 1938
    • But this inference, which is supported by the opening of Book I, renders incomprehensible the note "and I have finished writing this," which is included within the dream.

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    puzzling

    English

    Verb

    (head)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Difficult to understand or explain; enigmatic or confusing; perplexing.
  • *
    • , title=(The Celebrity), chapter=2 , passage=Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Time spent pondering something confusing.