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Definition of Bafflement
1. Noun. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.
Generic synonyms: Confusedness, Confusion, Disarray, Mental Confusion, Muddiness
Derivative terms: Baffle, Befuddle, Bemuse, Bewilder, Mystify, Obfuscate, Puzzle, Puzzle
Definition of Bafflement
1. n. The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
Definition of Bafflement
1. Noun. The state or result of being baffled. ¹
2. Noun. Something that causes interference or blockage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bafflement
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bafflement
Literary usage of Bafflement
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reflections on School Integration: Colloquium Proceedingsby Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm by Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm (2004)
"It is towards attempting to record this simultaneous existence of desire and
bafflement that our academic research should ideally endeavour. ..."
2. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"The moroseness and surrender to alcoholic excess of the Indians of the Andean
uplands from Ecuador to Bolivia probably result from the bafflement of the ..."
3. Elementary Logic by William James Taylor (1909)
"Here is no source of bafflement, no element of doubt, ... The mechanical types
are perfectly inadequate because all is bafflement and doubt. ..."
4. Elementary Logic by William James Taylor (1909)
"Here is no source of bafflement, no element of doubt, ... The mechanical types
are perfectly inadequate because all is bafflement and doubt. ..."
5. Principles of social psychology as developed in a study of economic and by James Mickel Williams (1922)
"bafflement of an impulse often may appear to stir no resentment when such is not
... bafflement of a disposition in one sphere of social behaviour may cause ..."
6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"Feeling of bafflement, curiosity and disappointment, followed by pleasure when
the word was finally supplied.) H/b. (" Had a ' motor laughter fringe ' on ..."
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