Used in a Sentence

mystification

How to use mystification in a sentence. Example sentences and definitions for mystification.

Editorial note

I have no doubt this is a mystification, and I don't trust blindly what is written on the internet. I still have a brain.

Examples19
Definitions3
Parts of speech1

Quick take

confusion resulting from failure to understand

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of mystification gathered in one view.

noun

confusion resulting from failure to understand

noun

something designed to mystify or bewilder

noun

the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for mystification.

noun

something designed to mystify or bewilder

noun

the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered

Example sentences

1

I have no doubt this is a mystification, and I don't trust blindly what is written on the internet. I still have a brain.

2

I had years when I liked biology and years when I did not liked it, but imo, the wish for mystification does not lead to knowledge. Well done any topic can be interesting, badly done it will be boring.

3

Nobody's expressing mystification at the price difference. That's not the topic at hand.

4

>Any biological talk at this point is unhelpful mystification. The business marketing groups for NNs might push back on this a bit, I suspect.

5

I find this badly written, so that its point is buried under a good deal of mystification. I don't care about the backgrounds of the protestors or red cords, or much about William the Conqueror.

6

Somehow the mystification of adding entanglement to the mess pushes it off into "Hilbert space" and nobody notices.

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If you were to, instead, say “Is mystification incompatible with pricing schedules?” no one will have benefited.

8

I'm not going to argue this so much as reaffirm my mystification that regulatory bodies haven't interfered with this obvious conduit of fraud.

9

There's no mystification going on here, Chomsky is simply saying we don't fully understand the morphogenetic systems that produce these results. You offered some speculation as to why this might be, but so far no formalized results.

10

Any biological talk at this point is unhelpful mystification.

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``In an attempt to counter Seibel’s devastating dissection, Richard Greenberg, one of Liebowitz’s lawyers, said his client was “not playing with a full deck,” adding that he shared the judge’s “mystification” as to Liebowitz’s behavior.' '

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I think that the mystification of game mechanics would do a great deal to improve immersion, and open up new kinds of gaming experiences. It's something I've been thinking seriously about as an indie game developer.

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There is of course a mystification going on, which is exactly what Chomsky is trying to invoke. I am pointing out that these phenomena are far better understood than "oh, we don't know why there are spirals with a particular magic ratio all over the natural world."

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The great leader image depends on mystification and careful management of public impressions. Through television, we see too much of our politicians, and they are losing control over their images and performances.

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And there's an unfortunate mystification of science as something other than a mode of inquiry, with its limitations and advantages. Plus, people gain funding by hitching themselves to the social respectability of science.

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The article is fantastically clear, with much less mystification than in ordinary physics popularization articles.

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You are of course free to place your priorities so that your business survives, but then you can't make a claim to the woes of a whitehat SEO and you will drown in a turmoil of mystification and algo update-fears. I do not understand why they even experiment with javascript rendering to increase the page-speed when they do not even currently defer loading of javascript to </body>.

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Schopenhauer got it right, where BlaBlaMeter gets it wrong: "If I were to say that the so-called philosophy of this fellow Hegel is a colossal piece of mystification which will yet provide posterity with an inexhaustible theme for laughter at our times, that it is a pseudo-philosophy paralyzing all mental powers, stifling all real thinking, and, by the most outrageous misuse of language, putting in its place the hollowest, most senseless, thoughtless, and, as is confirmed by its success, most stupefying verbiage, I should be quite right. Further, if I were to say that this summus philosophus ...

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Saying "left-wing ideology has always placed the interest of the collective, represented by the state, over the interest of the individual" is like saying "right-wing ideology has always placed the interest of the rich, represented by the individual, to screw the poor, over the interest of society to improve as a whole" -- a simplistic mystification.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use mystification in a sentence?

I have no doubt this is a mystification, and I don't trust blindly what is written on the internet. I still have a brain.

What does mystification mean?

confusion resulting from failure to understand

What part of speech is mystification?

mystification is commonly used as noun.