mystification

Mr. Longdon's momentary mystification was perhaps partly but the natural effect of constitutional prudence.

For a time mystification, then changing to weird fear, as a sense of the supernatural stole over him.

The sanguine confidence of the community had not subsided into doubt so much as into helpless mystification.

That was a case of high mystification, of jugglery worthy of a street-corner mountebank.

And all life appears to Riabovich an absurd mystification and seems thoroughly senseless.