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Meaning of "muddlement" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF MUDDLEMENT

ˈmʌdəlmənt


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MUDDLEMENT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Muddlement is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MUDDLEMENT

accouplement · addlement · bafflement · befuddlement · devilment · disablement · disembowelment · disentanglement · dismantlement · embezzlement · embrittlement · enablement · entablement · entanglement · entitlement · puzzlement · redoublement · resettlement · settlement · tremblement

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MUDDLEMENT

muddies · muddiest · muddily · muddiness · mudding · muddle · muddle along · muddle through · muddle-up · muddled · muddledness · muddlehead · muddleheaded · muddleheadedly · muddleheadedness · muddler · muddling · muddlingly · muddly · muddy

WORDS THAT END LIKE MUDDLEMENT

advertisement · agreement · announcement · apartment · arrangement · basement · element · enforcement · engagement · implement · improvement · infringement · management · measurement · movement · placement · replacement · requirement · retirement · statement · supplement

Synonyms and antonyms of muddlement in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «muddlement» into 25 languages

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The translations of muddlement from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «muddlement» in English.
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muddlement
1,325 millions of speakers
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muddlement
570 millions of speakers
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muddlement
510 millions of speakers
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muddlement
380 millions of speakers
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muddlement
280 millions of speakers
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muddlement
278 millions of speakers
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muddlement
270 millions of speakers
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muddlement
260 millions of speakers
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muddlement
220 millions of speakers
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Muddlement
190 millions of speakers
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muddlement
180 millions of speakers
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muddlement
130 millions of speakers
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muddlement
85 millions of speakers
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Muddlement
85 millions of speakers
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muddlement
80 millions of speakers
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muddlement
75 millions of speakers
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गोंधळ
75 millions of speakers
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muddlement
70 millions of speakers
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muddlement
65 millions of speakers
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muddlement
50 millions of speakers
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muddlement
40 millions of speakers
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muddlement
30 millions of speakers
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muddlement
15 millions of speakers
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muddlement
14 millions of speakers
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muddlement
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muddlement
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Trends of use of muddlement

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MUDDLEMENT»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about muddlement

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MUDDLEMENT»

Discover the use of muddlement in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to muddlement and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Renegotiating Ethics in Literature, Philosophy, and Theory
The 'effort' is a busy business ('no idle business') because it encounters and faces (is made 'in face of) the 'constant force that makes for muddlement' (the emphasis is James's). He implies that it is difficult 'really to see' because part of what ...
Jane Adamson, Richard Freadman, David Parker, 1998
2
Studies in Henry James
"The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement. The great thing is indeed that the muddled state too is one of the very sharpest of the realities, that it also has colour and ...
Richard P. Blackmur, 1983
3
Captured: The Animal Within Culture
Martha Nussbaum quotes Henry James 'on the task of moral imagination' of which he observes: 'The effort really to see and really to represent is no idle business in face of the constant force that makes for muddlement' (qtd Nussbaum , 'Finely ...
Melissa Boyde, 2013
4
Joyce and the City: The Significance of Place
... an unhealthy preoccupation with form: There is much young muddlement at the present time on the subject of form, and much of this muddlement is due to the mountainous figure, continent-like in its individual proportions, of James Joyce.
Michael H. Begnal, 2002
5
Writing with a Thesis: A Rhetoric and Reader
Words to Check: muddlement (paragraph 1) implements (5) The Economic definition of Wealth is subtle and difficult to appreciate, but it is absolutely essential to our study to get it clear at the outset and keep it firmly in mind. It is through some ...
Sarah Skwire, David Skwire, 2013
6
The Dead Secret
lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back to it, as I am a living sinner, is more than I know!” “There is not the least need to go back on our account,” said Rosamond, forgetting all caution ...
Wilkie Collins, 2008
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Errors in the Use of English
The commonest form of muddlement in sentences is occasioned by the endeavour to be brief. You apply two or three nominatives to one verb, or two or three verbs to one nominative, which do not agree together if you look at them separately.
W.B. Hodgson
8
Sign of the Dove
Hi cast a muddlement on them. They'll stagger round the marsh till you're well away.” Yet whoever it was would likely find Lunedweth, soon or late. And though Lunedweth had sworn she would cast a muddlement on them, Lyf gravely doubted ...
Susan Fletcher, 2010
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American Cultural Studies
In Dell's analysis, we find most of the appealing elements of 1930s radicalism — the choice for certainty over muddlement, the power of theory to correlate and explain, the chance to be responsible and disciplined, and the charge to create a  ...
Catherine A. Warren, Mary Douglas Vavrus, 2002
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Tambour:
... an unhealthy preoccupation with form: There is much young muddlement at the present time on the subject of form, and much of this muddlement is due to the mountainous figure, continent-like in its individual proportions, of James Joyce.
Harold J. Salemson, Mark S. Morrisson, Jack Selzer, 2002

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MUDDLEMENT»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term muddlement is used in the context of the following news items.
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Um, What Happened with Kim Gordon's Interview at the Neptune …
... all this muddlement that we haven't talked about much—Kim Gordon herself. As with any art form, writing a good book does not necessarily ... «TheStranger.com, Mar 15»
2
'Inherent Vice' is an audience-unfriendly head trip
... dentists, lesbian prostitutes and Owen Wilson's Nose in a journey that climaxes in achieving not much more than further muddlement. «The Michigan Daily, Jan 15»
3
Metropolis: Grandfather of Sci-Fi Films
The New York Times called it a “technical marvel with feet of clay”, while Wells slammed it for “foolishness, cliché, platitude, and muddlement ... «The Local.de, Jan 15»
4
Arcam A19 integrated amplifier and Arcam airDAC review
... the Arcam amp was found a little simplistic in its instrumental rendering, and occasionally erring toward stridency and muddlement when the ... «Macworld UK, Dec 14»
5
Former Vanderbilt basketball player makes awkward video for book …
The unintentionally funny one-minute promo video for the book slated for a Summer 2015 is a masterpiece in muddlement. Interspersed during ... «FOXSports.com, Aug 14»
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Why is Mohammed Abu Khdeir's death different from all other …
Why is their role – shoddy obfuscation, muddlement and distraction – so important? After all, they fail to convince anyone who genuinely wishes ... «Mondoweiss, Jul 14»
7
Whitewater school board hears presentation on Common Core
One of the sources of confusion, Seichter noted, was muddlement over the proper website for Common Core. She said the accurate site is ... «Daily Union, Mar 14»
8
Obama's Crippling Ambivalence
... solution in Syria while holding in reserve a military option: the muddlement of virtually all American foreign policy since Theodore Roosevelt. «The American Prospect, Sep 13»
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GOP Sen. on CNN: Obama 'Uncomfortable Being Commander-in …
Corker said the Obama administration's “really hurt our credibility around the world” in their “muddlement” of the Syrian crisis, telling Bash that ... «Mediaite, Sep 13»
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Sen. Corker: Obama 'uncomfortable' as Commander in Chief
“It is just a complete muddlement, if you will,” Corker said on CNN. “And I don't know the president just seems to be very uncomfortable being ... «The Hill, Sep 13»
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