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mystification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement |
| Type of | muddiness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, confusedness |
| Derivation | mystify |
mystification::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | obfuscation |
| Type of | activity |
| Derivation | mystify |
Examples of mystification
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It was good to learn the explanation after nearly thirty years of mystification.
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Black expressed mystification as to why fines did not constitute such coercion.
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Alexander's sword at one stroke solved all the mystification of the Gordian knot.
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Other senators expressed similar mystification at the agitation against the bill.
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Today leadership is a subject enveloped not so much by mystique as by mystification.
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If your forehead crinkles in mystification at the name LaCrosse, allow me to explain.
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This argument also ties in with the Marxist theory of mystification and elite culture.
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Bush merely expressed his mystification about why Zaidi might have hurled those shoes.
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Light is not an agent of revelation, but of ever greater mystification.
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- Bewilderment: confusion resulting from failure to understand
- Something designed to mystify or bewilder
- The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
- (mystified) metagrobolized: totally perplexed and mixed up; "all this duncical nonsense has my brains metagrobolized"- Wall Street Journal
- (mystify) perplex: be a mystery or bewildering to; "This beats me!"; "Got me--I don't know the answer!"; "a vexing problem"; "This question really stuck me"
- Make mysterious; "mystify the story"
- Deception, beguilement, deceit, bluff, mystification, and subterfuge are acts to propagate beliefs that are not true, or not the whole truth (as in half-truths or omission). Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, sleight of hand. It can employ distraction, camouflage or concealment. ...
- Mystification is the sixth album released by the band Manilla Road. It was first issued in 1987 on Black Dragon Records, then re-released in 2000 on Sentinel Steel Records. The works of Edgar Allan Poe were the main inspiration for the lyrics of this album.
- Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective stemming from symbolic interactionism. The term was first adapted into sociology from the theatre by Erving Goffman, who developed most of the related terminology and ideas in his 1959 book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. ...
