confusedness

Then, after acknowledgment of the confusedness of the narrative and the fantastic wilfulness of some of the incidents and style, the critic goes on:—

"That is the knight's affair, not ours," he replied, refreshed by her angry confusedness, and, like the weather, in his coldness threw only fine, sharp snow, no hail.

Confusedness in words can proceed from nothing but confusedness in the thoughts which give rise to them.—Cobbett.

She smiled at the confusedness of his words, yet her own speech was not entirely devoid of embarrassment.

The fact is that the very confusedness, the many undeveloped sides, of Euphues, make it much more of an ancestor of the modern novel than if it were more of a piece.