mystification : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mystification	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mystification
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mystification n confusion resulting from failure to understand [syn: bewilderment, obfuscation, puzzlement, befuddlement, mystification, bafflement, bemusement] something designed to mystify or bewilder the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered Synonym(s): mystification, obfuscation
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mystification \Mys`tifica"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.