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haze

haze

16 6.2
A state of confusion when your thoughts feel unclear
  • noun
  • /heɪz/
translation icon : confusión
  • Through these events, more pieces of the mosaic of the past emerged from the haze of repression.

It was just a haze for, for me, I just was angry.

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Examples

  • Your glory days are now a haze.

  • Look, I've spent years in a haze, - trying to forget my past.

  • And if they want to live in their haze, then by all means, you do you.

  • Just live in kind of a haze my entire life.

  • Little Bill watches a moment in a haze, then closes the door.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • We got here yesterday, but we were just in like this haze of jet lag.

  • Tobias watched the world go by through a haze of winter sunlight and loss.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • Everything is filtered through this horrible haze; she feels unfit to be with other people.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Only one thing shone like a beacon through Du-mont's haze of confusion: Larissa had to be found.

    Fiction book (1992)
  • After working long hours, he often found himself in a haze, struggling to concentrate on simple tasks.

Synonyms

confusion
vshaze
389 1.8

A time when things are not organized and people do not know what to think or do

highlights a foggy or vague mental state rather than general disorder
fog
vshaze
53 6.0

A state of confusion that makes it hard to think clearly

is the same idea but emphasises a vague, unclear feeling
daze
vshaze
20 5.3

A short time when you feel confused and cannot think clearly

is a calmer, ongoing mental vagueness not tied to shock
incoherence
vshaze
5 7.3

Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow

is broader and includes general mental vagueness beyond language
fuzz
vshaze
4 6.4

A feeling of not seeing or remembering things clearly

is focused on mental vagueness rather than visual blurring
fogginess
vshaze
1 4.4

A feeling of being confused and slow to think

is the image of mental clouding rather than visual indistinctness
cloudiness
vshaze
1 3.2

A liquid or the sky that is not clear because it has small bits in it

is the mental version of lack of clarity rather than physical cloud
7.2

A state of mind when you feel unclear and cannot think or decide

is the shorter single word for that same mental clouding
muddiness
vshaze
7.4

A state when thoughts are unclear and you cannot think well

focuses on overall mental vagueness rather than specifically messy thinking
muddlement
vshaze
7.9

A state of confusion where things are unclear or messy

is a vaguer mental unclear state, not emphasising disorderliness
confusedness
vshaze
6.5

A feeling of not thinking or acting clearly

is more about vague mental unclear feeling than logical failure
unclearness
vshaze
7.7

A situation when something is hard to understand

is the specific mental form of that general lack of clarity
haziness
vshaze
4.4

A thin mist in the air that makes things hard to see

is the psychological sense of vagueness rather than physical mist

Antonyms

30 2.7

How easy it is to see through something like clean water

7 6.0

Clear thinking or speech that is easy to understand

Compounds

1 3.1

A thin mist in the early morning that makes the view soft

A state of mind when you feel unclear and cannot think or decide

How Confused

bewilderment
12 4.8
confusion
389 1.8
haze
16 6.2
blur
146 4.2
uncertainty
296 4.0

Surface Forms

haze singular
hazes plural

Etymology

The word haze for a confused mental state comes from that same idea of 'mist' in the head, where thoughts feel 'clouded' and hard to follow. So when you are in a haze you cannot think clearly or remember details.