Unessential vs Confusing - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between unessential and confusing

is that unessential is not essential; unimportant while confusing is difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc.

(en adjective)

Not essential; unimportant.

(Addison)

*1926 , , The Great Gatsby , Penguin 2000, p. 155:

*:But all this part of it seemed remote and unessential .

Void of essence, or real being.

(Milton)

* unessentiality

* inessential

* essential

(en adjective)

difficult to understand; not clear as lacking order, chaotic etc

Several sections in that book are really confusing .

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