Usually means: Deliberate obscuring of truth, clarity.
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  1. mystification: Merriam-Webster
  2. mystification: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. mystification: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. mystification: Collins English Dictionary
  5. mystification: Vocabulary.com
  6. mystification: Wordnik
  7. mystification: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. mystification: Wiktionary
  9. Mystification, mystification: Dictionary.com
  10. Mystification (Diderot), Mystification (album), Mystification (sociology), Mystification: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. Mystification: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. mystification: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. mystification: Rhymezone
  14. Mystification: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. mystification: FreeDictionary.org
  16. mystification: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. mystification: TheFreeDictionary.com

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mystification)

▸ noun:  The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
▸ noun:  A mystifying thing.

Similar:
obfuscation, puzzlement, bemusement, bewilderment, befuddlement, bafflement, mystifier, mystery-mongering, mysto-magic, illusion, more...

Opposite:
clarification, explanation, elucidation

Types:
befuddlement, bewilderment, confusion, daze, disorientation, fog, muddle, muddlement, more...

Adjectives:
ideological, deliberate, such, much, complete, mere, further, little, pure, sheer, utter

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Similar:
obfuscation, puzzlement, bemusement, bewilderment, befuddlement, bafflement, mystifier, mystery-mongering, mysto-magic, illusion, more...

Opposite:
clarification, explanation, elucidation

Types:
befuddlement, bewilderment, confusion, daze, disorientation, fog, muddle, muddlement, more...

Adjectives:
ideological, deliberate, such, much, complete, mere, further, little, pure, sheer, utter

Colors:
    indigo,     violet,     midnight blue,     deep purple,     obsidian, more...



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