English Dictionary

perplexedness

名詞

不可算名詞 廃用

The quality of being perplexed; bafflement; confusion. / (obsolete) The quality of being intricate, complicated or entangled.

日本語の意味

困惑、当惑：事態により混乱し、何にどう対処してよいか分からない状態 / （古語的な意味）複雑で入り組んだ状態、込み入った状態

His perplexedness was obvious when he stared at the complex diagram without saying a word.

複雑な図を黙って見つめているとき、彼の困惑の度合いが明らかだった。

意味（1）

The quality of being perplexed; bafflement; confusion.

–Why do you wish to marry him? he persisted. She picked little strips of wood from the box, smiling in her perplexedness. He is my husband, she said, with the word that does not quite mean husband.

意味（2）

(obsolete) The quality of being intricate, complicated or entangled.

[…] most Writers are so far from instructing us in the Nature and Knowledge of Things, that they use their Words loosly and uncertainly, and do not, by using them constantly and steadily in the same signification, make plain and clear deductions of Words one from another, and make their Discourses coherent and clear, (how little soever it were instructive), which were not difficult to do, did they not find it convenient to shelter their Ignorance or Obstinacy, under the Obscurity and perplexedness of their Terms […]