All perplexity synonyms

noun perplexity

• care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
• disorientation — to disorient.
• gnarl — a knotty protuberance on a tree; knot.
• befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
• bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
• gauze — any thin and often transparent fabric made from any fiber in a plain or leno weave.
• mystery — anything that is kept secret or remains unexplained or unknown: the mysteries of nature.
• muddledness — Quality of being muddled.
• inscrutability — incapable of being investigated, analyzed, or scrutinized; impenetrable.
• double bind — Psychology. a situation in which a person is given conflicting cues, especially by a parent, such that to obey one cue is to disobey the other.
• knot — either of two large sandpipers, Calidris canutus or C. tenuirostris, that breed in the Arctic and winter in the Southern Hemisphere.
• moodiness — given to gloomy, depressed, or sullen moods; ill-humored.
• confusion — If there is confusion about something, it is not clear what the true situation is, especially because people believe different things.
• helix — a spiral.
• molestation — to bother, interfere with, or annoy.
• muddle — to mix up in a confused or bungling manner; jumble.
• maze — a confusing network of intercommunicating paths or passages; labyrinth.
• worry — to torment oneself with or suffer from disturbing thoughts; fret.
• mystification — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
• discombobulation — to confuse or disconcert; upset; frustrate: The speaker was completely discombobulated by the hecklers.
• wonder — to think or speculate curiously: to wonder about the origin of the solar system.
• consternation — Consternation is a feeling of anxiety or fear.
• beguilement — to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude.
• distraction — the act of distracting.
• inscrutableness — Inscrutability.
• brainteaser — an intellectually challenging puzzle, problem, game, etc.
• incomprehension — lack of comprehension or understanding: The audience listened politely but with incomprehension.
• mess — a dirty, untidy, or disordered condition: The room was in a mess.
• difficulty — the fact or condition of being difficult.
• whodunit — a narrative dealing with a murder or a series of murders and the detection of the criminal; detective story.
• inconclusiveness — The state or condition of being inconclusive.
• narcosis — a state of stupor or drowsiness.
• arduousness — requiring great exertion; laborious; difficult: an arduous undertaking.
• consideration — Consideration is careful thought about something.
• enigma — A person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand.
• mixup — an act or instance of mixing.
• demurral — the act or an instance of demurring
• distress — great pain, anxiety, or sorrow; acute physical or mental suffering; affliction; trouble.
• grabber — a person or thing that grabs.
• hot potato — Informal. a situation or issue that is difficult, unpleasant, or risky to deal with.
• hangup — Alternative spelling of hang-up.
• cliff-hanger — a melodramatic or adventure serial in which each installment ends in suspense in order to interest the reader or viewer in the next installment.
• hang up — the way in which a thing hangs.
• obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
• occult — of or relating to magic, astrology, or any system claiming use or knowledge of secret or supernatural powers or agencies.
• fretfulness — The quality of being fretful.
• bother — If you do not bother to do something or if you do not bother with it, you do not do it, consider it, or use it because you think it is unnecessary or because you are too lazy.
• abstruseness — hard to understand; recondite; esoteric: abstruse theories.
• amazement — Amazement is the feeling you have when something surprises you very much.
• fogginess — The characteristic or quality of being foggy.