different between confusion vs haze

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French confusion, from Latin confusio, confusionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?n?fju???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

confusion (usually uncountable, plural confusions)

1. A lack of clarity or order.
2. The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
3. The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
4. Lack of understanding due to dementia.
5. (archaic) A state of shame or embarrassment.

Synonyms

• (lack of clarity or order): discombobulation
• (state of being confused): bewilderment, disarray

Antonyms

• (lack of clarity or order): clarity
• (misunderstanding): distinction

Translations

French

Etymology

From Middle French confusion, from Old French confusion, borrowed from Latin confusio, confusionem, from verb confundo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.fy.zj??/

Noun

confusion f (plural confusions)

1. confusion

Derived terms

• prêter à confusion

Further reading

• “confusion” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French confusion.

Noun

confusion f (plural confusions)

1. confusion

Descendants

• French: confusion

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin confusio, confusionem.

Noun

confusion f (oblique plural confusions, nominative singular confusion, nominative plural confusions)

1. spread (act or instance of spreading)

Descendants

• English: confusion
• Middle French: confusion
  • French: confusion

English

Alternative forms

• hase (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?z, IPA^(key): /he?z/
• Rhymes: -e?z
• Homophones: hays, heys

Etymology 1

• The earliest instances are of the latter part of the 17th century.
• Possibly back-formation from hazy.
• Compare Old Norse höss (“grey”), akin to Old English hasu (“gray”).

(Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)Origin unknown; there is nothing to connect the word with Old English hasu, haso (“gray”).

Noun

haze (usually uncountable, plural hazes)

1. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility.
   • 1772 December, James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Around the World, vol. 1 ch. 2:

     Our hopes, however, soon vanished; for before eight o'clock, the serenity of the sky was changed into a thick haze, accompanied with rain.
2. A reduction of transparency of a clear gas or liquid.
3. An analogous dullness on a surface that is ideally highly reflective or transparent.

4. (figuratively) Any state suggestive of haze in the atmosphere, such as mental confusion or vagueness of memory.
   • 1957, Daphne du Maurier, The Scapegoat [1], ?ISBN, page 218:

     In my haze of alcohol, I thought for one crazy instant that he had plumbed my secret.
5. (uncountable, engineering, packaging) The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent.
   • 1998, Leonard I. Nass and Charles A. Heiberger, Encyclopedia of PVC [2], ?ISBN, page 318:

     Haze is listed as a percent value and, typically, is about 1% for meat film.

6. (countable, brewing) Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine.
   • 1985, Philip Jackisch, Modern Winemaking [3], ?ISBN, page 69:

     Various clarifying and fining agents are used in winemaking to remove hazes.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

1. To be or become hazy, or thick with haze.

Etymology 2

Possibly from hawze (“terrify, frighten, confound”), from Middle French haser (“irritate, annoy”)

Verb

haze (third-person singular simple present hazes, present participle hazing, simple past and past participle hazed)

1. (US, informal) To perform an unpleasant initiation ritual upon a usually non-consenting individual, especially freshmen to a closed community such as a college or military unit.
2. To oppress or harass by forcing to do hard and unnecessary work.
3. (transitive) In a rodeo, to assist the bulldogger by keeping (the steer) running in a straight line.

Translations

Further reading

• haze in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References