perplexity

English

Etymology

From Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /pəˈplɛksɪti/
(US) IPA^(key): /pəɹˈplɛksədi/

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.
A measurement in information theory: see Perplexity.

Translations

Quality of being confused or puzzled

Dutch: verwardheid, verwarring (nl), verbijstering (nl)
Finnish: hämmennys (fi), hämmentyneisyys
French: perplexité (fr)
Galician: perplexidade (gl) f
German: Perplexität (de) f
Greek: σύγχυση (el) f (sýnchysi)

Irish: aincheas m
Italian: perplessità (it)
Maori: rapeka
Persian: سرگشتگی‎ (fa) (sargaštegi)
Romanian: perplexitate (ro) f
Russian: расте́рянность (ru) f (rastérjannostʹ), замеша́тельство (ru) n (zamešátelʹstvo)

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Hebrew: מבוכה (m"vucha)

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