0 a state of confusion because you do not understand something --
I have been reading this with some puzzlement.
We expect that to be abided by strictly, but it adds to the air of puzzlement.
Thinking this way we would find that the moral agent keeps a ready stock of resources useful for various moral puzzlements - old stories, memories, wisdom sayings, pithy maxims.
This puzzlement has to do with the illusion that ostensive definitions are one-time baptisms of words with meanings that do not require any stage setting in language.
This sense of estrangement is often associated with times of emotional or physical suffering, but may simply arise from the sense of awful puzzlement at our own being.
Puzzlement is compounded by the very different problems emphasized in different parts of the literature.
My overall feeling when reading the book was puzzlement.
That he remained resolutely silent would have simply deepened their puzzlement.