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muddlement

noun

Etymology

From muddle + -ment.

  1. derived from moddelen — “to make muddy”
  2. inherited from modelen
  3. suffixed as muddlement — “muddle + ment”

Definitions

  1. The state of being muddled or the act of muddling

    The state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization.

    • I am lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back into it, as I am a living sinner is more than I know!
    • I have stated that some of our protestant writers are muddled. I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for muddlement. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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