perplexity
English
Etymology
From Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.
Noun
perplexity (countable and uncountable, plural 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.
- 1942, Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
- A measurement in information theory: see Perplexity.
Translations
Quality of being confused or puzzled
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