bewilderment

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

bewilderment
    n 1: confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn:
         {bewilderment}, {obfuscation}, {puzzlement},
         {befuddlement}, {mystification}, {bafflement},
         {bemusement}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Bewilderment \Be*wil"der*ment\, n.
   1. The state of being bewildered.
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   2. A bewildering tangle or confusion.
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            He . . . soon lost all traces of it amid
            bewilderment of tree trunks and underbrush.
                                                  --Hawthorne.
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