confusedness

• “WV: echami: A state of confusedness, such as one brought on by this CCC.”

  Hey Everybody, Do You Know What Time It Is?

• “Any deceptiveness in our ideas derives from their confusedness and is the result of our misuse of freedom.”

  Antoine Arnauld

• “Opposite to confusedness of ideas is distinctness.”

  Antoine Arnauld

• “Random wandering around and being very disorientated due to extreme tiredness and general dazed and confusedness.”

  Archive 2007-06-01

• “A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale.”

  'An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa

• “In general, causation is to be understood as an increase in distinctness on the part of the causally active substance, and an increase in confusedness on the part of the passively effected substance.”

  Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind

• “What now if another should say that “this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this reason first conveyed under the name of heaven and earth, because out of it was this visible world with all those natures which most manifestly appear in it, which is ofttimes called by the name of heaven and earth, created and perfected?””

  The Confessions

• “An eddying murmur filled my ears, and a strange, dumb confusedness descended on my mind.”

  Science Fiction Hall of Fame

• “Every careful reader has noticed the confusedness of Paul's mind and arguments.”

  Pagan and Christian Creeds: Their Origin and Meaning

• “For instance, here are some of the stories told me, taken from the life, and in all their native confusedness.”

  The Diary of a French Army Chaplain

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