confusion

Nouns

  • (n) disorder resulting from a failure to behave predictably
    • the army retreated in confusion
  • (n) a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior
    • a confusion of impressions
    confusedness, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness,
  • (n) a feeling of embarrassment that leaves you confused discombobulation,
  • (n) an act causing a disorderly combination of elements with identities lost and distinctions blended
    • the confusion of tongues at the Tower of Babel
  • (n) a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another
    • he changed his name in order to avoid confusion with the notorious outlaw
    mix-up,

Synonyms

confusedness disarray mental confusion muddiness discombobulation mix-up

Words of close approximity

confusing