different between confusion vs lunacy
confusion
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)
- A lack of clarity or order.
- The state of being confused; misunderstanding.
- The act of mistaking one thing for another or conflating distinct things.
- Lack of understanding due to dementia.
- (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)
- 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)
- confusion
Descendants
- French: confusion
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin confusio, confusionem.
Noun
confusion f (oblique plural confusions, nominative singular confusion, nominative plural confusions)
- spread (act or instance of spreading)
Descendants
- English: confusion
- Middle French: confusion
- French: confusion
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lunacy
English
Etymology
From lunatic +? -cy.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?lu?.n?.si /, /?lju?.n?.si/
- (US) IPA(key): /?lu?.n?.si /
Noun
lunacy (countable and uncountable, plural lunacies)
- (of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
- a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
- insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
- Something deeply misguided.
Synonyms
- (state of being mad): insanity, madness, craziness, craze
Translations
lunacy From the web:
- what lunacy mean
- what's lunacy in farsi
- lunacy what does it mean
- what fresh lunacy is this
- what is lunacy act
- what causes lunacy
- what is lunacy software
- what does lunacy mean dictionary
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