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English
Etymology
From befuddle + -ment.
Noun
befuddlement (countable and uncountable, plural befuddlements)
- The state of being befuddled.
- 1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105,
- It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.
1985, Don DeLillo, White Noise, Penguin, published 1986, Part I, Chapter 21, p. 162:A change came over his wind-beaten face, a slight befuddlement, the shock of some minor fact jarred loose.
Synonyms
Translations
characteristic of being befuddled