befuddlement

noun

Etymology: From befuddle + -ment.

1. The state of being befuddled; a feeling of being dazed and perplexed due to confusion.

   “His words struck me with a sense of befuddlement that lasted until I got home.”

   “1907, Algernon Blackwood, “Max Hensig—Bacteriologist and Murderer” Chapter 4, in The Listener and Other Stories, New York: Knopf, 1917, p. 105, It was, of course, an effect of hypnotism, he remembered thinking, vaguely through the befuddlement of his drink—this culminating effect of an evil and remorseless personality acting upon one that was diseased and extra receptive.”