perplexity

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perplexity

/pəˈplɛksɪti/ UK
/pəɹˈplɛksəti/ US

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From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.

noun perplexities

countable, uncountable The state or quality of being perplexed. There is no such thing as 'chance', which term only signifies the mind's perplexity in the face of events that spring from multiple causes.
Similar: puzzlement, bewilderment, confusion
countable, uncountable Something that perplexes. The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.
countable, uncountable A measure of the accuracy with which a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.

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noun the state or quality of being perplexed

Español	perplejidad
日本語	困惑 konwaku, 当惑 tōwaku
中文	困惑 kùnhuò, 茫然 mángrán, 迷惘 míwǎng
Français	perplexité
Deutsch	Perplexität
Italiano	perplessità
Ελληνικά	σύγχυση sýnchysi
Română	perplexitate
Русский	расте́рянность rastérjannostʹ, замеша́тельство zamešátelʹstvo
עברית	מבוכה mevukhá

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@misc{perplexity_2026,
  title = {perplexity},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/perplexity},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}