About The Word Mystification

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Mystification

Mystification Meaning & Definition
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`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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