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1. Confusion resulting from failure to understand
   - bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, bafflement, bemusement
    
2. Something designed to mystify or bewilder
    
3. The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
   - obfuscation

Derived forms: mystifications

See also: mystify

Type of: activity, artefact [Brit], artifact [N. Amer], confusedness, confusion, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness

Encyclopedia: Mystification