perplexity

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English

Etymology

From Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitas ‘entanglement’, from perplexus.

Pronunciation

Noun

perplexity (plural perplexities)

  1. The state of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
  2. Something that perplexes.
    • 1942: The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance — Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 149)
  3. A measurement in information theory. [1]

 

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