confusedness

1. 1.

   a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior

   “a confusion of impressions”

   Synonymsconfusionmental confusionmuddinessdisarray

   Broadercognitive state

   Narrowerdisorientationdistractiondazehalf-cockjamais vubewildermentperplexity

Other forms of confusedness

plural

confusednesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about confusedness

What does confusedness mean?

confusedness means "a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior".

How many syllables are in confusedness?

confusedness has 4 syllables: con-fu-sed-ness. The stress falls on "fu".

What is another word for confusedness?

Close synonyms include confusion, mental confusion, muddiness, disarray. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is confusedness a common word?

confusedness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.