Perplexity vs Impediment - What's the difference?
perplexity | impediment | Related terms |
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).
A hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.
* Shakespeare
* {{quote-book
, year=1818
, author=Mary Shelley
, title=Frankenstein
, chapter=2
(chiefly, in the plural) Baggage, especially that of an army; impedimenta
As nouns the difference between perplexity and impediment
is that perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused while impediment is a hindrance; that which impedes or hinders progress.perplexity
English
Noun
(perplexities)- The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities , stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
impediment
English
Noun
(en noun)- Thus far into the bowels of the land / Have we marched on without impediment .
citation, passage=I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.}}
- Working in a noisy factory left him with a slight hearing impediment .
