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Solicitude vs Perplexity - What's the difference?

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Solicitude is a related term of perplexity.


As nouns the difference between solicitude and perplexity

is that solicitude is the state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety while perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.

solicitude

English

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The state of being solicitous; uneasiness of mind occasioned by fear of evil or desire for good; anxiety.
  • A feeling of excessive concern.
  • 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).