n. 25B6; noun
there is confusion about the new system : UNCERTAINTY, incertitude, unsureness, doubt, ignorance; formal dubiety.
she stared in confusion : BEWILDERMENT, bafflement, perplexity, puzzlement, mystification, befuddlement; shock, daze, wonder, wonderment, astonishment; informal bamboozlement; N. Amer. informal discombobulation.
her life was in utter confusion : DISORDER, disarray, disorganization, untidiness, chaos, mayhem; turmoil, tumult, disruption, upheaval, uproar, hurly-burly, muddle, mess; informal shambles.
a confusion of boxes : JUMBLE, muddle, mess, heap, tangle; informal shambles.
certainty, order.