'Perplexity' definitions:
Definition of 'perplexity'
From: WordNet
noun
Trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
Definition of 'Perplexity'
From: GCIDE
- Perplexity \Per*plex"i*ty\, n.; pl. Perplexities. [L. perplexitas: cf. F. perplexit['e].] The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt. [1913 Webster]
- By their own perplexities involved, They ravel more. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'perplexity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amorphousness,
- baffle,
- bafflement,
- baffling problem,
- befuddlement,
- bewilderment,
- bind,
- bother,
- botheration,
- brain twister,
- catch-22,
- chaos,
- Chinese puzzle,
- cloud,
- complexity,
- complexness,
- complication,
- confoundment,
- confusion,
- convolution,
- crabbedness,
- crossword puzzle,
- crux,
- dark,
- darkness,
- daze,
- difficulty,
- dilemma,
- discombobulation,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcert,
- disconcertedness,
- disconcertion,
- disconcertment,
- disorder,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- distress,
- disturbance,
- doubt,
- embarrassment,
- enigma,
- enigmatic question,
- entanglement,
- fix,
- floorer,
- flummox,
- flurry,
- fluster,
- flutter,
- fog,
- fogginess,
- frenzy,
- fuddle,
- fuddlement,
- fuzziness,
- Gordian knot,
- haze,
- impenetrability,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- intricacy,
- intricateness,
- involution,
- involvement,
- jam,
- jigsaw puzzle,
- jumble,
- knot,
- knotty point,
- maze,
- mess,
- mind-boggler,
- mist,
- mistiness,
- muddle,
- muddlement,
- mumbo jumbo,
- murk,
- murkiness,
- mystery,
- mystification,
- node,
- nodus,
- nonplus,
- nut to crack,
- obfuscation,
- obscurantism,
- obscuration,
- obscurity,
- opacity,
- oxymoron,
- paradox,
- perplexed question,
- perturbation,
- pickle,
- plight,
- pons asinorum,
- poser,
- pother,
- predicament,
- problem,
- pucker,
- puzzle,
- puzzlement,
- puzzler,
- quandary,
- question,
- question mark,
- ramification,
- reconditeness,
- riddle,
- ruffle,
- scrape,
- shapelessness,
- shuffle,
- sixty-four dollar question,
- stew,
- sticker,
- stumper,
- subtlety,
- sweat,
- swivet,
- tanglement,
- teaser,
- technicality,
- tizzy,
- tough proposition,
- unassuredness,
- unclarity,
- unclearness,
- unplainness,
- unsettlement,
- upset,
- vagueness,
- vexed question,
- why