'Mystification' definitions:
Definition of 'mystification'
(from WordNet)
noun
Confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement]
noun
Something designed to mystify or bewilder
noun
The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered [syn: mystification, obfuscation]
Definition of 'Mystification'
From: GCIDE
- Mystification \Mys`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. mystification.] The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify. [1913 Webster]
- The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'mystification'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amorphousness,
- anagoge,
- anagogics,
- anthroposophy,
- apparent soundness,
- burial,
- burying,
- cabala,
- cabalism,
- casuistry,
- Chinese puzzle,
- circularity,
- closed,
- clouding,
- college of Laputa,
- concealedness,
- concealment,
- corruption,
- covering,
- covering up,
- covertness,
- dark,
- darkening,
- darkness,
- deception,
- disingenuousness,
- distortion,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esotericism,
- esoterics,
- esoterism,
- esotery,
- evasive reasoning,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- fuzziness,
- hiddenness,
- hiding,
- hocus-pocus,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- insincerity,
- interment,
- invisibility,
- jesuitism,
- jesuitry,
- masking,
- misapplication,
- misdirection,
- misguidance,
- misinformation,
- misinstruction,
- misknowledge,
- misleading,
- mist,
- misteaching,
- mistiness,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystery,
- mysticism,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscurement,
- obscurity,
- occultation,
- occultism,
- opacity,
- oversubtlety,
- perplexity,
- perversion,
- philosophism,
- plausibility,
- plausibleness,
- putting away,
- rationalization,
- screening,
- secrecy,
- secretion,
- shapelessness,
- sophism,
- sophistical reasoning,
- sophistication,
- sophistry,
- special pleading,
- speciosity,
- specious reasoning,
- speciousness,
- subterfuge,
- subtlety,
- symbolics,
- symbolism,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- uncommunicativeness,
- unplainness,
- vagueness,
- vicious circle,
- vicious reasoning,
- why,
- yoga,
- yogeeism,
- yogism