confoundment

English

Etymology

From confound +‎ -ment.

Noun

confoundment (countable and uncountable, plural confoundments)

1. (uncountable) The state of being confounded.
   • 1950, Jack Kerouac, chapter 3, in The Town & the City (A Harvest Book), New York, N.Y.: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Inc., →ISBN, section 10, pages 302–303:

     Peter stood on the bow in the powerful headwinds gazing that way with an inexpressible sense of amazement and expectation, full of confoundment that in that direction, to which they slowly pushed, there could be no warm light and comfort and no friend, only the North, the far White North as ruthless and indifferent as the ocean’s own overlowering night.

2. (countable) Something which is or has been confounded.

Synonyms

• confoundation