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Mystification

noun

Confusion resulting from failure to understand. Synonyms: bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement.

Something designed to mystify or bewilder.

The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered. Synonym: obfuscation.

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"Mystification" Quotes from Famous Books

... divan where Jarvo had just laid it, was Amory's coat; and St. George caught that up, slipped it on, and was off down the corridor after the old man, moving as swiftly and slyly as he. St. George had no great faith in him or in what he might know, but the old man puzzled him, and mystification is the smell ...

— Romance Island • Zona Gale

... was an expression of surprise and mystification on her face as she saw the change that had come over those kittens. They had shrunk and faded from two or three bright colors to a single pale pink. She looked again and sniffed them. Their odor had changed, too. She turned to the watchers ...

— Roof and Meadow • Dallas Lore Sharp

... at par with the old coins. The ruler, pleased with this almost magical power of getting a revenue with little trouble, continued to issue coins until suddenly the heavier coins began to be exported or melted, and the value of the other money fell, to the mystification alike of the prince and of his people. The reason is now perfectly plain: the number of coins was not kept within the proper limits and they went down to their bullion value. The only way a further profit could be made in this way was to debase the coin again. By successive ...

— Modern Economic Problems - Economics Vol. II • Frank Albert Fetter

... door during this interchange. Dan forgot, in his increasing interest and mystification, that the "Courier's" city editor was waiting for news of Thatcher, the capitalist. Young Thatcher's narrative partook of the nature of a protest. He was seriously in rebellion against his own expatriation. He stood erect now, with the color bright in his ...

— A Hoosier Chronicle • Meredith Nicholson

... for Le Gardeur was the only key which ever unlocked her real feelings. When the fox praised the raven's voice and prevailed on her to sing, he did not more surely make her drop the envied morsel out of her mouth than did Angelique drop the mystification she had worn ...

— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

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