confusion

Meaning of confusion

noun
  1. uncertainty about what is happening, intended, or required.
    there seems to be some confusion about which system does what
    he cleared up the confusion over the party's policy
  2. the state of being bewildered or unclear in one's mind about something.
    she looked about her in confusion

Middle English: from Latin confusio(n- ), from the verb confundere ‘mingle together’ (see confuse).

Information about confusion

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of confusion is: confusions.
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Hyphenation of confusion

con-fu-sion

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • confusion is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

confusion synonyms

Meaning mental confusion:

confusedness, muddiness, disarray

Meaning discombobulation:

discombobulation

Meaning the state of being uncertain:

uncertainty

Meaning the inability to make a decision quickly:

indecision

Meaning the action of pausing before saying or doing something:

hesitation

Meaning the quality or state of being hesitant:

hesitancy

Meaning a feeling of uncertainty or lack of conviction:

doubt

Meaning lack of knowledge or information:

ignorance

Meaning the state or quality of being doubtful; uncertainty:

dubiety

Meaning a state of uncertainty or hesitation:

incertitude

Meaning a feeling of being perplexed and confused:

bewilderment

Meaning inability to deal with or understand something:

perplexity

Meaning a feeling of confusion through lack of understanding:

puzzlement

Meaning the state of being stupefied:

stupefaction

Meaning the condition of having lost one's sense of direction:

disorientation

Meaning an untidy and disorganized state or collection:

muddle

Meaning a feeling of unease or embarrassment; awkwardness:

discomfiture

Meaning the state or feeling of being disturbed or agitated; agitation:

discomposure

Meaning a sudden upsetting or surprising event or experience:

shock

Meaning a state of stunned confusion or bewilderment:

daze

Meaning great destruction or damage:

devastation

Meaning a feeling of amazement and admiration, caused by something beautiful, remarkable, or unfamiliar:

wonder

Meaning a state of awed admiration or respect:

wonderment

Meaning great surprise:

astonishment

Meaning a state of deception or mystification:

bamboozlement

Meaning the state or feeling of being disturbed or unsettled:

disconcertment

confusion antonyms

Meaning firm conviction that something is the case:

certainty

Translation of confusion

Words that rhyme with confusion

Sion, sion, Iasion, Salabrasion, abrasion, antiabrasion, basion, catabasion, chemabrasion, corrasion, dermabrasion, diplasion, dissuasion, erasion, evasion, iconostasion, invasion, microinvasion, mispersuasion, nasion, nonevasion, occasion, opticonasion, overpersuasion, persuasion, pervasion, preevasion, preinvasion, prepersuasion, rasion, reevasion, reinvasion, reoccasion, repersuasion, suasion, subnasion, unpersuasion, adhesion, autolesion, cohesion, decohesion, dyshesion, exesion, hemilesion, inadhesion, incohesion, inhesion, intercohesion, lesion, mesion

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