confoundment

Like the virus itself, covertigo has a new variant and it is marked by confusion, confoundment and deja-vu-like dread.

To the confoundment of creationists, this small evidence is not the same as little evidence—sequences of reasoning based on a transit or a tooth usually produce other kinds of evidence, or more bones.

The county and the town were named for a Colonel Mason Maycomb, a man whose misplaced self-confidence and overweening willfulness brought confusion and confoundment to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars.

It came by e-mail, tweets and Facebook messages — passionate views, along with some confoundment.