perplexity

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pəˈplɛksɪti/
• IPA^(key): /pəɹˈplɛksədi/

Noun

perplexity (countable and uncountable, plural perplexities)

1. The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
2. 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.

3. 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)
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• 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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• (deprecated template usage) Hebrew: מבוכה (m"vucha)
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