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mystification


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Mystification  \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. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  mystification 
  n  :  confusion  resulting  from  failure  to  understand  [syn:  {bewilderment}, 
  {obfuscation},  {puzzlement},  {befuddlement},  {bafflement}, 
  {bemusement}] 




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