mental confusion
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4.9
- noun
- /ˈmɛn.təl kənˈfjuː.ʒən/
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confusión mental
- After a long night with little sleep, she experienced sharp bouts of mental confusion, making it hard for her to focus on her work.
- mental confusion and memory
- headache and mental confusion
- mental confusion and problems
Examples
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You should expect tremors, shakes, dizziness, disorientation, and mental confusion.
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This illusion creates long-term mental confusion, instability, and finally senility.
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Mental effects of alcohol include a lack of intellectual abilities, an inability to learn, and mental confusion.
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It is not necessarily associated with mental confusion, ignorance, the irrational, and terrifying, as it often is in the West.
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His mental confusion and suffering, as we gradually discover, originate in a period of his life when he left Ireland to join his friend Marty Kilgallon in London and worked there on building sites as a casual laborer.
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A condition in which a person has symptoms of mental confusion, extreme excitement, anxiety, trembling, rapid pulse, and illusion is known as delirium tremens, and this condition is due to the excessive consumption of alcohol.
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Phenytoin's side effects include drowsiness, acne, overgrowth of the gums, nausea, vomiting, mental confusion, mental slowing.
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The story world itself is one of sounds and tunes, some heard by Ollie only in moments of intense mental confusion, some forming an integral part of his tribal background: jigs, reels, popular songs, airs from operas, fine and bad versions of Irish songs.
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During the meeting, his mental confusion became apparent when he struggled to recall basic facts and respond to questions.
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The patient exhibited signs of mental confusion, having difficulty remembering simple instructions and often getting lost in familiar surroundings.
Synonyms
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1.8
A time when things are not organized and people do not know what to think or do
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6.0
A state of confusion that makes it hard to think clearly
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4.8
A state when the mind is confused and not thinking clearly
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6.7
Feeling confused about where you are, who you are, or what is real
A feeling of not thinking or acting clearly
A state when thoughts are unclear and you cannot think well
A state of confusion where things are unclear or messy
A state of mind when you feel unclear and cannot think or decide
A feeling of confusion that makes it hard to think clearly
With much hurry and disorder
A state where a person's mind is not working well and they cannot think or act normally
How Confused
Surface Forms
Morphology
The phrase 'mental confusion' is directly and compositionally derived from 'mental' (pertaining to the mind) + 'confusion' (inability to think clearly); a learner who knows both words will readily infer a state of confused cognition. This adjective+noun combination follows a common cross-linguistic pattern and does not involve idiomatic or metaphorical shift, so it is immediately comprehensible to B1 learners.
Etymology
Mental confusion gives a picture of your thoughts getting mixed up, like papers scattered on a desk. When your mental notes are in confusion, you cannot think clearly, so it means 'a lack of clear and organized thought'.