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puzzlement

noun

Etymology

From puzzle + -ment.

  1. inherited from puslian — “to pick out the best bits, carefully select, cull”
  2. suffixed as puzzlement — “puzzle + ment”

Definitions

  1. The confusing state of being puzzled

    The confusing state of being puzzled; bewilderment.

    • The puzzlement caused by the complex system led to great anger.

  2. A puzzle

    A puzzle; something baffling.

    • The diary contains plenty of small puzzlements.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at puzzlement. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at puzzlement. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at puzzlement

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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