mys·ti·fi·ca·tion

(mĭs′tə-fĭ-kā′shən)

1. The act or an instance of mystifying.

2. The fact or condition of being mystified.

3. Something intended to mystify.

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Noun	1.	mystification - confusion resulting from failure to understand bafflement, befuddlement, bemusement, bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement confusedness, disarray, mental confusion, muddiness, confusion - a mental state characterized by a lack of clear and orderly thought and behavior; "a confusion of impressions"
	2.	mystification - something designed to mystify or bewilder artefact, artifact - a man-made object taken as a whole
	3.	mystification - the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered obfuscation activity - any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity"

mystification

noun

A stunned or bewildered condition:

befuddlement, bewilderedness, bewilderment, daze, discombobulation, fog, muddle, perplexity, puzzlement, stupefaction, stupor, trance.

Translations

mystification

perplessit...

mystification

[ˌmɪstɪfɪˈkeɪʃən] N

1. (= mystery) → misterio m
why all the mystification? → ¿por qué tanto misterio?

2. (= confusion) → perplejidad f
my mystification increased → creció mi perplejidad

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

mystification

n (= bafflement) → Verwunderung f, → Verblüffung f; (= act of bewildering) → Verwirrung f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

mystification

[ˌmɪstɪfɪˈkeɪʃ/ən] n (bewilderment) → perplessità f inv

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MONTGOMERY interrupted my tangle of mystification and suspicion about one o'clock, and his grotesque attendant followed him with a tray bearing bread, some herbs and other eatables, a flask of whiskey, a jug of water, and three glasses and knives.

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I determined to commence a series of covert insinuations, or innuendoes, about the oblong box--just to let him perceive, gradually, that I was NOT altogether the butt, or victim, of his little bit of pleasant mystification. My first observation was by way of opening a masked battery.

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If it was easy to reflect, however, that such a boy could postpone school, it was at least as marked that for such a boy to have been "kicked out" by a schoolmaster was a mystification without end.

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Tarzan, too, had vanished, as he had a way of doing, to the mystification of the blacks.

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But the clerk saw merely the mystification which he desired to create.

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Brittles, being called in, involved himself and his respected superior in such a wonderful maze of fresh contradictions and impossibilities, as tended to throw no particular light on anything, but the fact of his own strong mystification; except, indeed, his declarations that he shouldn't know the real boy, if he were put before him that instant; that he had only taken Oliver to be he, because Mr.

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This story is told by the family with the fiercest mystification; but I really think Mrs MacNab prefers her own original tale: that the Other Man (or whatever it is) crawls out every night from the big box in the corner, which is kept locked all day.

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What HE said about the Diamond to Miss Rachel was said, as usual, by way of a mystification or joke.

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He explained that even if never a dollar were to come to him from the other house he would nevertheless cherish this one; and he dwelt, further, while they lingered and wandered, on the fact of the stupefaction he was already exciting, the positive mystification he felt himself create.

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I can tell you this--you only discovered my mother in her own character when I put an end to the mystification by presenting you to each other.

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Still, she reflected, these sorts of skill are almost exclusively masculine; women neither practice them nor know how to value them; and one's husband's proficiency in this direction might legitimately increase one's respect for him, since mystification is no bad basis for respect.

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One unexpected sentence came from her lips after another, till I got involved in a web of mystification; and wondered what unseen spirit had been sitting for weeks by my heart watching its workings and taking record of every pulse.

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