confused
adjective
not thinking coherently or rationally; bewildered; perplexed.
confusedness
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a word derived from
confused.
Example Sentences
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Confusedness in words can proceed from nothing but confusedness in the thoughts which give rise to them.—Cobbett.
From The Verbalist A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Right and the Wrong Use of Words and to Some Other Matters of Interest to Those Who Would Speak and Write with Propriety. by Thomas Embly Osmun
An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.
From The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
"That is the knight's affair, not ours," he replied, refreshed by her angry confusedness, and, like the weather, in his coldness threw only fine, sharp snow, no hail.
From Titan: A Romance v. 1 (of 2) by Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
The fact is that the very confusedness, the many undeveloped sides, of Euphues, make it much more of an ancestor of the modern novel than if it were more of a piece.
From The English Novel by George Saintsbury
Every careful reader has noticed the confusedness of Paul's mind and arguments.
From Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning by Edward Carpenter
