different between bafflement vs discomposure

English

From baffle +? -ment.

bafflement (countable and uncountable, plural bafflements)

(uncountable) The state or result of being baffled, puzzled, or confused.
- He made a gesture of bafflement.
  "None whatever—it's beyond me," he confessed.
- 2008, Chris Rojek, Brit-Myth: Who Do the British Think They Are?, Reaktion Books (?ISBN)
  The error here is to confuse British composure with the appearance of bafflement, embarrassment and reserve.
(countable) Something that causes a state of confusion or puzzlement.
- 2005 Dec. 16, Josh Tyrangiel, "Best of 2005: Music," Time:
  The cartoon characters on the front cover, the irritatingly meaningless track names . . . make it seem like a concept album about global warming for kids. Since the lyrics remain a bafflement, it might well be.

dis- +? composure

discomposure (countable and uncountable, plural discomposures)

The state of being discomposed.
- 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
  And now it was that I began to keep a journal of every day's employment; for, indeed, at first I was in too much hurry, and not only hurry as to labour, but in too much discomposure of mind; and my journal would have been full of many dull things[.]
(obsolete) Discordance; disagreement of parts.
- But this is wrought by emission , or suppression , or suffocation , of the native spirits ; and also by the disordination and discomposure of the tangible parts , and other passages of nature , and not by a conflict of heats

discomposure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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