perplexity — Dizionario inglese

Sostantivo

1. The state or quality of being perplexed.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Sinonimi

   puzzlementbewildermentconfusion

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

   Esempi

   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.

   Uso

   • numerabile
   • non numerabile

Sostantivo

1. trouble or confusion resulting from complexity

   Termini più generali

   confusionmental confusionconfusednessmuddinessdisarray