confusion
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1.8
- noun
- /kənˈfjuːʒən/
:
confusión
- The instructions were unclear, leading to considerable confusion during the event preparations.
- cause confusion
- avoid confusion
- source of confusion
I'm tweeting as her, which led a lot of confusion in emails.
- I'm tweeting as her, which led a lot of confusion in emails.
- Again I had to name them differently to avoid this confusion.
- I think where the confusion lies is there are other people with her same name.
- There was a lot of confusion about what the Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner program was.
- The reason for this confusion is the traders often misunderstand what correlation means and doesn't mean.
- But we want to avoid a confusion here of saying, well, human nature is the same thing as divine nature.
Examples
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HOOVER: I am not in the habit of repeating myself, Agent Broadbeck... but I will do so here to ensure there is no confusion.
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A major difficulty exists when there is confusion between the concepts of teaching and learning.
Academic text (1991) -
It's terrible, but it was clear the problem for people today is confusion in a world that should make sense.
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More than once he had started walking in the wrong direction until increasing confusion turned him around.
Fiction book (1998) -
There is a lot of confusion among the officers in the front row.
Fiction book (1991) -
Gentlemen, I think there's been some sort of confusion.
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And if there is any confusion, I'll be happy to act as interpreter.
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This is a practical, pragmatic distinction, and I think this is part of where all the confusion has come from.
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Not surprisingly, the result was confusion, as the feature sets offered by different vendors diverged.
Academic text (2011) -
There was a lot of confusion about what the Paulson, Bernanke, Geithner program was.
Synonyms
306
1.0
A wrong belief, calculation, or action
53
3.3
A mistake that happens when someone confuses one thing with another
3
6.7
A mistake when someone identifies the wrong person or object
1
8.9
Saying that someone made or caused something when they did not
1
6.3
An error that puts something into the wrong group in data or science
A wrong idea about yourself or another person that changes how you act
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
- Jargon
1
4.5
A situation where people mistake one brand for another because of similar logo or packaging
How Confusing
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1.8
243
1.6
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confusion comes from Latin con- ('together') and fundere ('to pour'), so it first meant 'poured together' or mixed up. So if two things are mixed this way, people can take one for the other, which is why confusion also means a mistake or wrong identification.