Confusement



Merriam-Webster online returns the following when searching for confusement.
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Suggestions for confusement:


  1. confusedness
  2. Confucianist
  3. Confucianism
  4. confutations
  5. confabulates
  6. confiscated
  7. confessionals
  8. Confucianists
  9. Confucianisms
  10. confiscation


But if we look up the two roots of Confusement, we get:

Main Entry: con·fuse
Pronunciation: kun-'fyz
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Form(s): con·fused; con·fus·ing
Etymology: back-formation from Middle English confused perplexed, from Middle French confus, from Latin confusus, past participle of confundere


  1. archaic : to bring to ruin
  2. a : to make embarrassed : ABASH b : to disturb in mind or purpose : THROW OFF
  3. a : to make indistinct : BLUR <stop confusing the issue> b : to mix indiscriminately : JUMBLE c : to fail to differentiate from an often similar or related other <confuse money with comfort>


Main Entry: -ment
Pronunciation: ment; in verbs derived by functional shift (as 2ORNAMENT) "ment also ment
Function: noun suffix
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -mentum; akin to Latin -men, suffix denoting concrete result, Greek -mat-, -ma


  1. a : concrete result, object, or agent of a (specified) action <embankment> <entanglement> b : concrete means or instrument of a (specified) action <entertainment>
  2. a : action : process <encirclement> <development> b : place of a (specified) action <encampment>
  3. : state or condition resulting from a (specified) action <amazement>


So if we mix definition 3a of confuse and 3 of the suffix -ment, we get a state or condition resulting from being made indistinct.

Sounds like a word to me.