perplexity — Englisches Wörterbuch

Substantiv

1. The state or quality of being perplexed.

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   Synonyme

   puzzlementbewildermentconfusion

   Beispiele

   There is no such thing as 'chance', which term only signifies the mind's perplexity in the face of events that spring from multiple causes.

2. Something that perplexes.

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   The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.

3. A measure of the accuracy with which a probability distribution or model predicts a sample.

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Substantiv

1. trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

   Oberbegriffe

   confusionmental confusionconfusednessmuddinessdisarray