Associations to the word «Mystification»

Wiktionary

MYSTIFICATION, noun. The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
MYSTIFICATION, noun. A mystifying thing.

Dictionary definition

MYSTIFICATION, noun. Confusion resulting from failure to understand.
MYSTIFICATION, noun. Something designed to mystify or bewilder.
MYSTIFICATION, noun. The activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered.

Wise words

Language is a process of free creation; its laws and principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even the interpretation and use of words involves a process of free creation.
Noam Chomsky