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Perplexity vs Madness - What's the difference?

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Perplexity is a related term of madness.


As nouns the difference between perplexity and madness

is that perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused while madness is the state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.

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).

    • madness

    English

    Noun

  • The state of being mad; insanity; mental disease.
  • rash folly

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    * sanity

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