perplexity (n.)

• baffle
• bafflement
• befuddlement
• bewilderment
• bind
• bother
• botheration
• chaos
• cloud
• complexity
• complexness
• complication
• confusion
• convolution
• crabbedness
• crux
• dark
• darkness
• daze
• difficulty
• dilemma
• discombobulation
• discomfiture
• discomposure
• disconcertion
• disconcertment
• disorder
• disorganization
• disorientation
• distress
• disturbance
• doubt
• embarrassment
• enigma
• entanglement
• fix
• flurry
• fluster
• flutter
• fog
• fogginess
• frenzy
• fuddle
• fuddlement
• fuzziness
• haze
• impenetrability
• indeterminateness
• indistinctness
• intricacy
• involution
• involvement
• jam
• jumble
• knot
• maze
• mess
• mist
• mistiness
• muddle
• murk
• murkiness
• mystery
• mystification
• node
• obfuscation
• obscurantism
• obscurity
• opacity
• oxymoron
• paradox
• perturbation
• pickle
• plight
• poser
• pother
• predicament
• problem
• pucker
• puzzle
• puzzlement
• puzzler
• quandary
• question
• ramification
• reconditeness
• riddle
• ruffle
• scrape
• shapelessness
• shuffle
• stew
• sticker
• stumper
• subtlety
• sweat
• swivet
• tanglement
• teaser
• technicality
• tizzy
• unclearness
• upset
• vagueness
• why