confoundment

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noun

The state of being confounded.

Scrabble 20

Meanings

nounconfoundment (countable and uncountable, plural confoundments)

plural confoundments

  1. uncountableThe state of being confounded.
    1 more example

    Peter stood on the bow in the powerful headwinds gazing that way with an inexpressible sense of amazement and expectation, full of confoundment that in that direction, to which they slowly pushed, there could be no warm light and comfort and no friend, only the North, the far White North as ruthless and indifferent as the ocean’s own overlowering night.

    1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in The Town & the City (A Harvest Book), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, section 10, pages 302–303
  2. countableSomething which is or has been confounded.

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