[f. BEWILDER + -MENT.] The state or condition of bewildering or being bewildered: a. Confusion arising from losing one’s way; mental confusion from inability to grasp or see one’s way through a maze or tangle of impressions or ideas.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., I. 85. In the midst of his bewilderment.
1861. Geo. Eliot, Silas M., 13. Thought was arrested by utter bewilderment.
b. A tangled or labyrinthine condition of objects, an inextricable confusion or medley.
1844. Proc. Berw. Nat. Club, II. 109. The entangled bewilderment of oak and pine, birch and hazel.
1884. Black, Jud. Shaks., xxxi. What a bewilderment of light and color met her eyes!
