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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

perplexity en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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  • /pəˈplɛksɪti/ (UK)
  • /pəɹˈplɛksəti/ (US)

Etymology

From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) The state or quality of being perplexed.
    • There is no such thing as 'chance', which term only signifies the mind's perplexity in the face of events that spring from multiple causes. 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 121:
  2. (countable, uncountable) Something that perplexes.
    • The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance. 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon, Canongate, published 2006, page 149:
  3. (countable, uncountable) A measure of the accuracy with which a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.

Forms

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Synonyms

bewilderment · confusion · puzzlement

Translations (36)

tr kararsızlık (the state or quality of being perplexed) · pl ambaras (the state or quality of being perplexed) · fi hämmentyneisyys (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ota شاشقینلق (the state or quality of being perplexed) · bg смущение (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ru замеша́тельство (the state or quality of being perplexed) · cmn 茫然 (the state or quality of being perplexed) · tr şaşkınlık (the state or quality of being perplexed) · gl perplexidade (the state or quality of being perplexed) · la perplexitās (the state or quality of being perplexed) · nl verbijstering (the state or quality of being perplexed) · el σύγχυση (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ja 困惑 (the state or quality of being perplexed) · de Perplexität (the state or quality of being perplexed) · tr çekimserlik (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ru расте́рянность (the state or quality of being perplexed) · bg обърканост (the state or quality of being perplexed) · mi mangangatanga (the state or quality of being perplexed) · cmn 迷惘 (the state or quality of being perplexed) · it perplessità (the state or quality of being perplexed) · mi raumaharatanga (the state or quality of being perplexed) · kk абыржушылық (the state or quality of being perplexed) · fi hämmennys (the state or quality of being perplexed) · nl verwardheid (the state or quality of being perplexed) · fa سرگشتگی (the state or quality of being perplexed) · he מבוכה (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ro perplexitate (the state or quality of being perplexed) · fr perplexité (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ga aincheas (the state or quality of being perplexed) · es perplejidad (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ug زالالەت (the state or quality of being perplexed) · cmn 困惑 (the state or quality of being perplexed) · sa लोभ (the state or quality of being perplexed) · mi rapeka (the state or quality of being perplexed) · nl verwarring (the state or quality of being perplexed) · ja 当惑 (the state or quality of being perplexed)