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单词 mystification
释义
mystification
noun[U]
uk
/ˌmɪs.tɪ.fɪˈkeɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌmɪs.tə.fəˈkeɪ.ʃən/
thestateoffeelingveryconfusedbecause someone or something isimpossibletounderstand:
迷惑不解
And then, to the audience's mystification, thebandsuddenlystoppedplaying.然后，令观众困惑不解的是，乐队突然停止了演奏。
Synonyms
bewilderment
perplexity
puzzlementformal
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Confusion, confusing and feeling confused
  • addled
  • all of a doodahidiom
  • all over the placeidiom
  • alphabet soup
  • at seaidiom
  • discombobulation
  • disordered
  • disorganization
  • disorganized
  • disorientating
  • mush
  • muzzily
  • muzziness
  • mysterious
  • mysteriously
  • unaccountably
  • unexplained
  • wise
  • woolliness
  • woolly
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(Definition ofmystificationfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmystification

mystification
I warned explicitly for amystificationof particularity and the dangers of a return to mythology.
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The earlier comments and criticism selected here fluctuate between different kinds ofmystificationand misreading.
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Here we skirt the deep waters of false consciousness, of reification andmystification.
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In particular, there is a hazy area in which unfamiliar vocabulary is regarded as essential terminology by some, but as pointlessmystificationby others.
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The idea of the work of art as occult-inspired enchantment is already a mask for the commodity, and a strategy for itsmystification.
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Gandhi's clear recognition of the role the railways played in undergirding colonial rule cut through themystification.
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Some ancient ritual sites, apparently tied to iron working and all of its ritual mystifications, functioned as central foci of cultural identity, political legitimacy and economic production.
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It is instrumental in an ontological-politicalmystification, that is, the individual- upon which national, confessional, and class affiliation transpires-rests on the naturalness of a desiring self.
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Thismystificationof problems continues.
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Their newmystificationseemed inevitable.
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I suggest that we read this mechanized production of commodities not simply as the literal mechanized production of factory products / commodities, but also as the mechanizedmystificationof factory products.
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There can be a gratuitous element in stylization, and no doubt some stylizations are per formed purely for play or for semioticmystification, without recoverable motivations or implications.
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Far from being an example of meremystification, however, such provisions increase the chance that the criminal law will be morally as well as intellectually coherent.
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Value in the economic sense, itself a powerful social force, thus appears as amystification, a chimera that results from the disavowal of the true nature of labor.
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It is one almost of despair; it is despair, anger andmystification.
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