muddledom

But in the twilight of the double vision, a spiritual muddledom is set up for which no high-sounding words can be found; we can neither act nor refrain from action, we can neither ignore nor respect Infinity.

A Passage To India Forster, E. M. 1924

The anodyne of muddledom, by which most men blur and blend their mistakes, never passed Leonard's lips --

Howards End 1924

I then learned that what as a boy I was wont to call the Rule of Three was more properly termed equations, and that equations might be complicated to the highest limits of muddledom, and when so complicated were termed quadratics.

In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879