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Mystification

Mystification Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Mystification? [n] the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered [n] something designed to mystify or bewilder [n] confusion resulting from failure to understand Synonyms \| Synonyms for Mystification: bafflement \| befuddlement \| bemusement \| bewilderment \| obfuscation \| obfuscation \| puzzlement Related Terms \| Find terms related to Mystification: amorphousness \| anagoge \| anagogics \| anthroposophy \| apparent soundness \| burial \| burying \| cabala \| cabalism \| casuistry \| Chinese puzzle \| circularity \| closed \| clouding \| college of Laputa \| concealedness \| concealment \| corruption \| covering \| covering up \| covertness \| dark \| darkening \| darkness \| deception \| disingenuousness \| distortion \| equivocalness \| equivocation \| esotericism \| esoterics \| esoterism \| esotery \| evasive reasoning \| fallaciousness \| fallacy \| fog \| fogginess \| fuzziness \| hiddenness \| hiding \| hocus-pocus \| indeterminateness \| indistinctness \| insincerity \| interment \| invisibility \| jesuitism \| jesuitry \| masking \| misapplication \| misdirection \| misguidance \| misinformation \| misinstruction \| misknowledge \| misleading \| mist \| misteaching \| mistiness \| mumbo jumbo \| murk \| murkiness \| mystery \| mysticism \| obfuscation \| obscurantism \| obscuration \| obscurement \| obscurity \| occultation \| occultism \| opacity \| oversubtlety \| perplexity \| perversion \| philosophism \| plausibility \| plausibleness \| putting away \| rationalization \| screening \| secrecy \| secretion \| shapelessness \| sophism \| sophistical reasoning \| sophistication \| sophistry \| special pleading \| speciosity \| specious reasoning \| speciousness \| subterfuge \| subtlety \| symbolics \| symbolism \| unclarity \| unclearness \| uncommunicativeness \| unplainness \| vagueness \| vicious circle \| vicious reasoning \| why \| yoga \| yogeeism \| yogism See Also \| activity \| artefact \| artifact \| confusion \| disarray \| mental confusion Mystification In Webster's Dictionary \Mys`tifica"tion\, n. [Cf. F. mystification.] The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify. The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. --De Quincey.

Mystification Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Mystification?

[n] the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
[n] something designed to mystify or bewilder
[n] confusion resulting from failure to understand

Mystification In Webster's Dictionary

\Mys`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. mystification.]
The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also,
something designed to, or that does, mystify.

      The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been
      playing off a mystification on his Grace. --De Quincey.

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