perplexities

States of bewilderment

Perplexities are states of confusion or bewilderment, or the things that cause them.

A philosophical text might be full of perplexities—puzzling questions without clear answers.

The perplexities of modern life left him exhausted.

The word suggests complexity that resists easy resolution, problems that tangle the mind rather than yield to straightforward solutions.

confusion

bewilderment

State of being baffled

disorientation · befuddlement · stupefaction · muddle · fog · daze · discombobulation · fluster · nonplussed · bewildered

mystery

enigma

Something hard to fathom

unknown · secrets · cryptic · arcane · unfathomable · inexplicable · inscrutable · impenetrable · mystique · obscurity

complexity

intricacy

State of elaborate complexity

nuance · multifaceted · elaborate · labyrinthine · convoluted · knotty · thorny · tangled · dense · multilayered

metric

probability

Quantified chance of occurrence

  • scoreNumerical standing in competition
  • evaluationDetermining worth or quality
  • bitsSmall portions or pieces

prediction · token · GPT · LLM · likelihood · loss · benchmark · entropy · NLP

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Opposites
cognitive clarity

perplexitiesclarities

States of transparency

understandings · certainties · comprehensions · insights · realizations

complexity

perplexitiessimplicities

Qualities of being uncomplicated

transparencies · no-brainers · givens · rudiments · trivialities

order and coherence

perplexitiesharmonies

Pleasing combined pitches

coherences · orderliness · consistencies · unities · clarities

Family

puzzled, complexity, perplexed, perplex, perplexing, perplexity, complexities, perplexedly

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