noun
Meaning 1
The state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- His words struck me with a sense of befuddlement that lasted until I got home.
- 1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105, It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: bafflement, bewilderment, confusion, perplexity, puzzlement
Antonyms: none provided