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Perplexity vs Discomposure - What's the difference?

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Perplexity is a related term of discomposure.


As nouns the difference between perplexity and discomposure

is that perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused while discomposure is the state of being discomposed.

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).

    • discomposure

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

  • The state of being discomposed.
  • * 1719,
    • And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things......
  • (obsolete) Discordance; disagreement of parts.

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