Perplexity vs Confuse - What's the difference?
perplexity | confuse |
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:
A measurement in information theory: see (Perplexity).
To thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.
(obsolete) To rout; discomfit.
To mix up; to puzzle; to bewilder.
To make uneasy and ashamed; to embarrass.
To mistake one thing for another.
As a noun perplexity
is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.As a verb confuse is
to thoroughly mix; to confound; to disorder.perplexity
English
Noun
(perplexities)- The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities , stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.