"muddlement" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "muddle",
        "3": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "muddle + -ment",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From muddle + -ment.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muddlements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "muddlement (countable and uncountable, plural muddlements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ment",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret - Volume 2, page 216:",
          "text": "I am lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back into it, as I am a living sinner is more than I know!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Arthur Helps, Friends in Council - Volume 4, page 181:",
          "text": "You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Money Writes!, page 119:",
          "text": "I have stated that some of our protestant writers are muddled. I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 1328:",
          "text": "The Opposition was charging the Government with muddlement and with mismanagement.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Joseph Michael Sepesy, Word Dances III: Celebration:",
          "text": "At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization."
      ],
      "id": "en-muddlement-en-noun-NL120CmV",
      "links": [
        [
          "muddled",
          "muddled"
        ],
        [
          "muddling",
          "muddle"
        ],
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ],
        [
          "disorganization",
          "disorganization"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muddlement"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "muddle",
        "3": "ment"
      },
      "expansion": "muddle + -ment",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From muddle + -ment.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "muddlements",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "muddlement (countable and uncountable, plural muddlements)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ment",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1857, Wilkie Collins, The Dead Secret - Volume 2, page 216:",
          "text": "I am lost in my own muddlement; and whereabouts the right place is, and how I am to get myself back into it, as I am a living sinner is more than I know!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, Arthur Helps, Friends in Council - Volume 4, page 181:",
          "text": "You may heap muddlement upon muddlement; and, with a free people, though much mischief is done and much good prevented, still they work on steadily , each man in his private capacity doing something to retrieve the effects of bad or of indolent government.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, Money Writes!, page 119:",
          "text": "I have stated that some of our protestant writers are muddled. I begin with one who is muddlement and nothing else; muddlement not merely by nature but by choice; muddlement as a religion, a philosophy, and an ethical code.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1967, New Zealand. Parliament. House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, page 1328:",
          "text": "The Opposition was charging the Government with muddlement and with mismanagement.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2016, Joseph Michael Sepesy, Word Dances III: Celebration:",
          "text": "At best, words are fumbled but somewhat redeemed with an accepted frustration and shrugs, and at worst, phrases, punctuated with grimaced muddlements, simply fail.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The state of being muddled or the act of muddling; confusion; disorganization."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "muddled",
          "muddled"
        ],
        [
          "muddling",
          "muddle"
        ],
        [
          "confusion",
          "confusion"
        ],
        [
          "disorganization",
          "disorganization"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "muddlement"
}