Definition of Bafflement

1. Noun. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.


Definition of Bafflement

1. n. The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.

Definition of Bafflement

1. Noun. The state or result of being baffled. ¹

2. Noun. Something that causes interference or blockage. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Bafflement

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bafflement

baff
baffed
baffed-out
baffed out
baffie
baffies
baffing
baffle
baffle board
baffle chamber
bafflectomies
bafflectomy
baffled
bafflegab
bafflegabs
bafflement (current term)
bafflements
baffler
bafflers
baffles
baffling
bafflingly
bafflingness
baffs
baffy
bafilomycin
bafilomycins
baft
bafts
bag

Literary usage of Bafflement

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reflections on School Integration: Colloquium Proceedingsby Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm by Mokubung O. Nkomo, Carolyn McKinney, Linda Chisholm (2004)
"It is towards attempting to record this simultaneous existence of desire and bafflement that our academic research should ideally endeavour. ..."

2. The Principles of Sociology by Edward Alsworth Ross (1920)
"The moroseness and surrender to alcoholic excess of the Indians of the Andean uplands from Ecuador to Bolivia probably result from the bafflement of the ..."

3. Elementary Logic by William James Taylor (1909)
"Here is no source of bafflement, no element of doubt, ... The mechanical types are perfectly inadequate because all is bafflement and doubt. ..."

4. Elementary Logic by William James Taylor (1909)
"Here is no source of bafflement, no element of doubt, ... The mechanical types are perfectly inadequate because all is bafflement and doubt. ..."

5. Principles of social psychology as developed in a study of economic and by James Mickel Williams (1922)
"bafflement of an impulse often may appear to stir no resentment when such is not ... bafflement of a disposition in one sphere of social behaviour may cause ..."

6. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1901)
"Feeling of bafflement, curiosity and disappointment, followed by pleasure when the word was finally supplied.) H/b. (" Had a ' motor laughter fringe ' on ..."

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