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BNC: 16213 COCA: 18575

puzzlement

1 ENTRIES FOUND:
puzzlement /ˈpʌzəlmənt/ noun
puzzlement
/ˈpʌzəlmənt/
noun
Learner's definition of PUZZLEMENT
formal
[noncount] : a feeling of being confused because something is difficult to understand困惑;迷惑
[singular] chiefly US : something that is difficult to understand令人困惑的事物;令人迷惑的事物
BNC: 16213 COCA: 18575

puzzlement

noun

puz·​zle·​ment ˈpə-zəl-mənt How to pronounce puzzlement (audio)
1
: the state of being puzzled : perplexity
2
: puzzle

Example Sentences

The cause of the accident has been a source of puzzlement. The explanation only increased their puzzlement.
Recent Examples on the Web These questions have led me, for more than half a century and well into the 21st, to contemplate an aging puzzlement. Cynthia Ozick, The Atlantic, 3 Aug. 2022 Military analysts share Ukrainian soldiers’ puzzlement over the halting Russian advances toward Kyiv so far. New York Times, 11 Mar. 2022 Illuminated in the blue glow of bubbling water and artificial light, the two women slowly registered each other with puzzlement, hostility and abject longing. New York Times, 22 Feb. 2022 Freud sought to impress on his readers a sense of relentless puzzlement, to spark resistance to neat arguments. Udi Greenberg, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2022 Which brings us back to another big picture problem, summed up neatly by Cad Bane expressing puzzlement at Boba’s angle here. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 9 Feb. 2022 For lovers of his work, such puzzlement appears to be part of his appeal. James Walton, The New York Review of Books, 20 Aug. 2020 And his puzzlement offers comfort, transcending middle-aged male disaffection to speak to the universal condition of adulthood. Nina Renata Aron, Los Angeles Times, 2 Feb. 2022 The entire subject of cryptocurrency is one that many find a puzzlement and yet perhaps vaguely alluring. John Anderson, WSJ, 21 Dec. 2021 See More

Word History

First Known Use

1731, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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The first known use of puzzlement was in 1731
BNC: 16213 COCA: 18575

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