Definition of perplexity

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Perplexity (n.) The quality or state of being perplexed or puzzled; complication; intricacy; entanglement; distraction of mind through doubt or difficulty; embarrassment; bewilderment; doubt.

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Difficulty :: Difficulty (n.) Something difficult; a thing hard to do or to understand; that which occasions labor or perplexity, and requires skill and perseverance to overcome, solve, or achieve; a hard enterprise; an obstacle; an impediment; as, the difficulties of a science; difficulties in theology..
Puzzle :: Puzzle (v.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity; as, to be in a puzzle..
Intricacy :: Intricacy (n.) The state or quality of being intricate or entangled; perplexity; involution; complication; complexity; that which is intricate or involved; as, the intricacy of a knot; the intricacy of accounts; the intricacy of a cause in controversy; the intricacy of a plot..
Pucker :: Pucker (n.) A state of perplexity or anxiety; confusion; bother; agitation.
Botheration :: Botheration (n.) The act of bothering, or state of being bothered; cause of trouble; perplexity; annoyance; vexation..
Unperplex :: Unperplex (v. t.) To free from perplexity.
Ravel :: Ravel (v. i.) To fall into perplexity and confusion.
Tweague :: Tweague (n.) A pinching condition; perplexity; trouble; distress.
Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..
Bothersome :: Bothersome (a.) Vexatious; causing bother; causing trouble or perplexity; troublesome.
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) A state of being embarrassed; perplexity; impediment to freedom of action; entanglement; hindrance; confusion or discomposure of mind, as from not knowing what to do or to say; disconcertedness..
Coil :: Coil (n.) Fig.: Entanglement; toil; mesh; perplexity.
Scrape :: Scrape (n.) A disagreeable and embarrassing predicament out of which one can not get without undergoing, as it were, a painful rubbing or scraping; a perplexity; a difficulty..
Fumble :: Fumble (v. i.) To grope about in perplexity; to seek awkwardly; as, to fumble for an excuse..
Discomfit :: Discomfit (v. t.) To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk/ to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Disembarrassment :: Disembarrassment (n.) Freedom or relief from impediment or perplexity.
Knot :: Knot (n.) Something not easily solved; an intricacy; a difficulty; a perplexity; a problem.
Recourse :: Recourse (n.) Recurrence in difficulty, perplexity, need, or the like; access or application for aid; resort..
Inwrap :: Inwrap (v. t.) To involve, as in difficulty or perplexity; to perplex..
Embarrassment :: Embarrassment (n.) Difficulty or perplexity arising from the want of money to pay debts.
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