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Obstacle vs Perplexity - What's the difference?

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Obstacle is a related term of perplexity.


As nouns the difference between obstacle and perplexity

is that obstacle is something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress while perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.

obstacle

English

(Obstacle course)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something that impedes, stands in the way of, or holds up progress
    • A big obstacle to understanding the manual was that it had been poorly translated from the Japanese.

    Synonyms

    * impediment * hindrance * hurdle * See also

    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).