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Definition of Confusion

Confusion

  1. The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.
  2. The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.
  3. Overthrow; defeat; ruin.
  4. One who confuses; a confounder.

Confusion Quotations

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
Albert Einstein

Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend.
Melody Beattie

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Albert Einstein
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Confusion Translations

confusion in Dutch is verwardheid, verwarring
confusion in German is Verschmelzung, Verwechslung, Unordnung
confusion in Italian is garbuglio, quiproquo, viluppo
confusion in Latin is turbatio, confusio

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