PERPLEXITY


Meaning of PERPLEXITY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ pə(r)pleksɪti ]

( perplexities)

1.

Perplexity is a feeling of being confused and frustrated because you do not understand something.

He began counting them and then, with growing perplexity, counted them a second time.

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2.

The perplexities of something are those things about it which are difficult to understand because they are complicated.

...the perplexities of quantum mechanics.

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