What's the difference between bewilderment and puzzlement?

Bewilderment


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being bewildered.
  • (n.) A bewildering tangle or confusion.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For all Lagarde's charm, it's hard not to feel a sense of Alice In Wonderland bewilderment about the IMF's work.
  • (2) Low Social group membership was positively associated with scores on the POMS Depression-Dejection and Confusion-Bewilderment Scales; and on the MCMI Avoidant, Schizotypal, Passive-Aggressive, Psychotic Thinking, Psychotic Depression, Alcohol Abuse, and Borderline Scales.
  • (3) ?” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Boris Johnson ‘humbled’ to be appointed foreign secretary – video There was also bewilderment at Johnson’s appointment in Beijing’s diplomatic circles.
  • (4) But bewilderment quickly turned to horror after the gunman tossed two gas canisters into the room and began firing, spraying the audience with bullets.
  • (5) He peered up in bewilderment and got back on to his feet.
  • (6) They have expressed bewilderment that Austin has not addressed it forcefully.
  • (7) But things move so fast today – and the bewilderment, content, disbelief with which Twitter was greeted.
  • (8) For Heath, there was a slight sense of bewilderment mixed in with the euphoria and a little bit of relief that the league's big dogs had fulfilled their half of the on-field bargain.
  • (9) Maria Sharapova’s racket sponsor, Head, have provoked bewilderment on social media after celebrating the reduction of the tennis player’s doping ban from two years to 15 months on Twitter.
  • (10) He articulates the frustration and bewilderment of that section of uneducated, unskilled, low-paid white America , whose wages have stagnated and social mobility has stalled that is nostalgic for its local privileges and global status.
  • (11) I remember the bewilderment of officials when, despite my reputation as a free marketeer, I refused to call benefit claimants customers - the term they had adopted in a desire to please.
  • (12) Another message that she retweeted – from Malaysia's badminton world champion, Lee Chong Wei – expressed the bewilderment so many felt: "I don't think we are ready to accept this so soon after the #MH370 tragedy."
  • (13) Second, despite the self-serving bewilderment that is typically expressed whenever western nations are the targets rather than perpetrators of violence - why would anyone possibly be so monstrous and savage as to want to attack us this way?
  • (14) In Leeds, members of Savile's family issued a statement expressing their bewilderment at his crimes and their sympathy for his victims.
  • (15) The prodromal manifestations of PCA thrombotic occlusion include photopsias, hemianopic blackouts, headache, transient episodes of numbness, episodic lightheadedness, spells of bewilderment and rarely tinnitus.
  • (16) That kind of popular approval explains why the government's decision to formally launch the privatisation of the east coast mainline by offering it to tender is causing such bewilderment, confusion and anger among many regular travellers on the London-to-Edinburgh route.
  • (17) It was the year it snowed really late in December, and public transport was in a state of bewilderment at how to cope with it all.
  • (18) The student “had darkened her features with make-up!” he says, in utter bewilderment.
  • (19) And, strangely for westerners, this frantically rightwing party is also the party of what remains of the welfare state, standing up for those millions for whom the transition to capitalism has brought only loss and bewilderment.
  • (20) Adult taste can be demanding work – so hard, in fact, that some of us, when we become adults, selectively take up a few childish things, as though in defeated acknowledgment that adult taste, with its many bewilderments, is frequently more trouble than it is worth.

Puzzlement


Definition:

  • (n.) The state of being puzzled; perplexity.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
  • (2) His comments have drawn puzzlement from bankers familiar with the financing of the presidential candidate’s business empire.
  • (3) The affair caused puzzlement among Kremlin watchers at the time.
  • (4) Now, when I talk with some others who were there that day, we share a certain kind of puzzlement over something we’ve noticed: many people who only experienced the attacks on television want revenge much more than my friends and I do.
  • (5) Once his eyes opened, he stared at the sun with a deep unearthly puzzlement and then at the sky around the sun.
  • (6) However, after the decision of the Malaysian owner, Vincent Tan, caused puzzlement at the Welsh club there is a recognition that the Scot's position is now precarious.
  • (7) In the sequence that may have caused most puzzlement among non-Britons, Boyle examined the rise of social media through a miniature soap opera, complete with a guest appearance from Sir Tim Berners-Lee and a collaged soundtrack racing from My Generation and My Boy Lollipop through Tiger Feet and Pretty Vacant to Dizzee Rascal live in the stadium.
  • (8) All such modifications often promote a loss of the subject's usual landmarks, a relative degree of puzzlement, sometimes even a destruction of pre-existing harmony that may impair the psychological balance of the subject.
  • (9) We’ve really enjoyed it.” Martin O’Neill, the Republic of Ireland manager, expressed puzzlement at Wales’s ascent from pot six of the World Cup qualifying draw alongside the minnows four years ago.
  • (10) She herself described her readers as "women and educated men", and expressed "puzzlement" when Margaret Drabble left her out of her 1985 edition of The Oxford Companion to English Literature.
  • (11) They really could have just restructured at DHS how the NCCIC works to really move threats together in a comprehensive fashion, and a real-time fashion, where you could actually get some value out of it,” said Tony Cole, a top executive at the cybersecurity firm FireEye, who said he was hearing similar puzzlement from industry leaders about the new center.
  • (12) A useful therapeutic model embraces dilemma, promotes toleration of puzzlement, and views the therapist as editor of the patient's developing novel.
  • (13) This is a common source of puzzlement amongst some, but let me solve this apparent conundrum.
  • (14) Talking to developers ahead of Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at San Francisco, one detects a sense both of puzzlement and excitement.
  • (15) His all-embracing attitudes caused widespread puzzlement.
  • (16) The puzzlement extends to British officials and business.
  • (17) Kenyatta's assertion is likely to cause puzzlement.
  • (18) There was puzzlement at the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street.
  • (19) What was interesting was how present and real the bull felt to me, how close the animal's pain and puzzlement was.
  • (20) Within the country, the mood was one of puzzlement – and abandonment.