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UK
/mˌɪstɪfɪkˈeɪʃən/
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NOUN
- confusion resulting from failure to understand
- something designed to mystify or bewilder
- the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
How To Use mystification In A Sentence
- Grotesque hyperbole and mystification belongs among the trademarks of Czech culture and creating false identities is one of the strategies of contemporary art. Boing Boing
- The criminal ‘justice’ system functions to alienate and isolate the accused individual, to destroy one's power and purposefulness and to weave a web of confusion and mystification around any legal proceedings.
- A salutary leveling of Voice in writing, rooted deep in the currents of postmetaphysical philosophy — or otherwise the deconstruction of the transcendental Word in all its various mystifications — can rightly disenchant the file of the signifier without going so far as to ignore the phonemic enchainment linked by letters but not coterminous with those scripted increments. Phonemanography: Romantic to Victorian
- And then, to the audience's mystification, the band suddenly stopped playing.
- It is the winter of 1773 and ‘our man’ Diderot fills 66 notebooks with facts, dreams and mystifications for his illustrious benefactress.
- It was a typically terse rejoinder from a character who has never hidden his mystification for those who squander their natural talent.
- He finished the domestic season in poor shape and, to general mystification, gave only the haziest impersonation of himself all the way through the World Cup finals. Losing a player as gifted as Wayne Rooney smacks of carelessness
- Her history is still perceived to be one of religious mystification and ritualised domestic violence.
- The Moon is the queen of mesmerism and mystification.
- I suspect the demystification of the magickal process will rob it of magic.