Difference between confusion and perplex
Definitions
noun
- a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
- a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused
- an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
- disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
- a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
Examples
A good deal of role confusion and bewilderment as the growing child encounters the newer ways is to be expected and observed.
There is a good deal of confusion over the use of concepts to analyse the institutions and processes of policy-making.
He adds, a few lines further on, that this term freedom is an indefinite, and incalculably ambiguous term… liable to an infinity of misunderstandings, confusions and errors.
Definitions
verb
- be a mystery or bewildering to
- make more complicated
Examples
“And now, Sir John de Walton,” he said, “methinks you are a little churlish in not ordering me some breakfast, after I have been all night engaged in your affairs; and a cup of muscadel would, I think, be no bad induction to a full consideration of this perplexed matter.”
As with all Dizzy games, Crystal Kingdom is jam-packed with perplexing puzzles to solve.
It still perplexes Kross that he survived while the firefighter on the other side of Josephine, Sergeant Bacco, did not.
