Definition of Confusion

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Confusion

The state of being mixed or blended so as to produce indistinctness or error; indistinct combination; disorder; tumult.

The state of being abashed or disconcerted; loss self-possession; perturbation; shame.

Overthrow; defeat; ruin.

One who confuses; a confounder.

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Confusion Quotations

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

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

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Albert Einstein

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

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.
Robert Frost

Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.
Jack Welch

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.
Lao Tzu

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.
John Adams

In the confusion we stay with each other, happy to be together, speaking without uttering a single word.
Walt Whitman

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

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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