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Perplexity

//pəɹˈplɛksəti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being perplexed. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    trouble or confusion resulting from complexity wordnet
  3. 3
    Something that perplexes. countable, uncountable

    "The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities, stood providing a strongly contrary appearance."

  4. 4
    A measure of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample. countable, uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English perplexite, borrowed from Middle French perplexité or post-classical Latin perplexitās, from perplexus (“entangled”). By surface analysis, perplex + -ity.

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