Usually means: Lack of understanding; mental disarray.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. confusion: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. confusion, confusion: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. confusion: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. confusion: Collins English Dictionary
  5. confusion: Vocabulary.com
  6. Confusion, confusion: Wordnik
  7. confusion: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. confusion: Wiktionary
  9. confusion: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. confusion: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. confusion: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. confusion: Dictionary.com
  13. confusion: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. confusion: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. ConFusion, Confusion (New Order song), Confusion (The Zutons song), Confusion (album), Confusion (disambiguation), Confusion (novella), Confusion, The Confusion (novel), The Confusion: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Confusion: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. confusion: Rhymezone
  18. Confusion, confusion (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. confusion: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. confusion: Free Dictionary
  21. confusion: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. confusion: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. confusion: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. confusion: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Confusion: Encyclopedia

Medicine (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Confusion: Merck Manuals
  4. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  5. Specific Diseases/Disorders (No longer online)
  6. Confusion: MEDLINE plus Illustrated Medical Encyclopedia
  7. Neurotrauma Glossary (No longer online)
  8. confusion: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  9. confusion: Medical dictionary
  10. University of Maryland Glossary of Medical Terms (No longer online)
  11. Confusion: Brain Injury

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. confusion: Idioms

Religion (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. confusion: Father Jeromes DICTIONARY of Words/Phrases Used in the QUFD Website
  2. Scientology® and Dianetics® (No longer online)
  3. CONFUSION: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. confusion: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. confusion: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. confusion: Golfer's Dictionary

(Note: See confusional as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A lack of clarity or order.
noun:  The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
noun:  The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
noun:  Lack of understanding due to dementia.
noun:  (archaic) A state of shame or embarrassment.

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