Bewilderment meaning

bĭ-wĭl'dər-mənt
The condition of being confused or disoriented.
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A confusion; jumble.
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A situation of perplexity or confusion; a tangle.

A bewilderment of lies and half-truths.

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The definition of bewilderment is a feeling of confusion or lack of understanding.

An example of bewilderment is what you feel when you have tried to solve a very hard problem.

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The fact or condition of being bewildered.
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The state of being bewildered.
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Origin of bewilderment

  • From bewilder +‎ -ment.
    From Wiktionary

Bewilderment Sentence Examples

  • Her hand paused as she stared in bewilderment at what sat in the bottom of the bath tub.

  • On the 1st of May following the king suddenly broke up a tournament at Greenwich, leaving the company in bewilderment and consternation.

  • Uncertain how to respond, Deidre laughed uncomfortably at the amount of bewilderment his question contained.

  • The delights of love are made to stand for the raptures of union with the divine, the tavern symbolizes an oratory, and intoxication is the bewilderment of sense before the surpassing vision.

  • This is achieved; and Briinnhilde's horror and bewilderment at meeting Siegfried again as a stranger in his own shape creates a situation which Siegfried cannot understand, and which Hagen pretends to construe as damning evidence that Siegfried has betrayed Gunther's honour as well as Briinnhilde's.

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