confusion
IPA: kʌnfjˈuʒʌn
noun
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (archaic) A state of shame or embarrassment.
Advertisement
Examples of "confusion" in Sentences
- "I think the name confusion can only help us, right?"
- Your confusion is a function of your reliance on simple-minded stereotypes.
- Adding to her confusion is the revelation that the current film is a remake of a doomed polish production that was never finished due to an unspeakable tragedy …
- Johnson's divisions, and one from Pickett's corps, flung itself upon it, and drove Crawford's and Ayre's division in confusion from the field for nearly two miles.
- Here, to simplify the discussion, we are using the term confusion in place of unawareness (ignorance), but without any connotation of disorganization, disorientation, or dementia.
- Lieutenant and boat's crew put off in confusion from the sinking vessel, and begged of Commodore Ingraham to cease firing, telling him that the water was already up to the berth-deck, and that they surrendered.
- Anyway, she walks through this circle of standing stones and appears back in 1743 where the first person she sees when she emerges from her confusion is a gentlemen in 18th century army officers 'uniform, who looks just like her husband.
- This article demonstrates that a source of this confusion is a misunderstanding of the nature of a conviction and the difference between a fact necessarily decided to establish an element of the crime and an extraneous fact that appears in the record of conviction.
Advertisement
Advertisement