English-Portuguese translations for perplexity

• perplexidade
  Com a abstenção em sede de comissão quisemos manifestar a nossa perplexidade relativamente a estes aspectos. We wanted to express our perplexity as regards these points by abstaining in committee.
  Devo reconhecer que, embora não seja prática habitual da Presidência dizê-lo, encerro o debate com um certo grau de perplexidade. I must acknowledge that, although it is not typical of the Presidency to say so, I am closing it with a degree of perplexity.

Definition of perplexity

• The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused
• In information theory, a measurement of how well a probability distribution or model predicts a sample

Related words

• perplex
• perplexed
• perplexing
• perplexedly
• in perplexity