perplexity
perplexity Lexical Profile
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• noun
An inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable; a state of mental confusion, bewilderment, or uncertainty.
"She stared at the contradictory instructions in sheer perplexity, unsure of how to proceed."
A complicated or baffling situation, problem, or matter that is difficult to resolve.
"The legal scholars spent months untangling the moral and constitutional perplexities of the landmark case."
In information theory and natural language processing, a quantitative measurement of how well a probability distribution or language model predicts a sample, where a lower value indicates better predictive accuracy.
"The researchers evaluated the new neural network by measuring its perplexity on an unseen test corpus."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 14th century from Old French perplexite, from Late Latin perplexitatem ('entanglement, confusion'), derived from Latin perplexus ('entangled, involved, confused'), from per- ('thoroughly') and plexus ('interwoven, braided').