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Indecision vs Perplexity - What's the difference?

indecision | perplexity | Related terms |

Indecision is a related term of perplexity.


As nouns the difference between indecision and perplexity

is that indecision is indecision, quandary while perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.

indecision

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist.
  • * 1903 , , chapter 21:
    • There was no indecision or delay in the establishment of their relations; Rebecca's heart flew like an arrow to its mark, and her mind, meeting its superior, settled at once into an abiding attitude of respectful homage.

    Synonyms

    * (inability to decide) indecisiveness

    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).