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discombobulation

noun

Etymology

From discombobulate + -ion.

Definitions

  1. An embarrassing feeling that leaves a person confused.

    • Prophet of o'er-population, your ingenious calculation, Causeth discombobulation only in the anxious mind
    • This quality or state of not having your act quite together lacks its own word in the dictionary. It is something short of discombobulation, but the mild, mental chafing is irritating enough to demand a remedy.

  2. A confused or disorderly state.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA