dazedness

Definition of dazednessnext
as in daze
a state of mental confusion a degree of dazedness that only the truly dissolute ever get to experience

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Noun
  • And there’s still almost an hour of film left to go, in which everyone, including the audience, is in a sort of hallucinatory, post traumatic daze — but even the relative comfort of that won’t last long.
    ABC News, ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
  • Now the state, if not region, is in a daze.
    Troy Renck, Denver Post, 18 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • Dusting windshields, coating sidewalks and veiling Atlanta’s spring sunshine in a golden haze.
    Nancy Badertscher, AJC.com, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Topics included how climate change and air pollution have greatly increased haze in the area, native Cherokee interpretations of the land, and how logging has impacted the park’s streams and fish populations, among other topics.
    Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
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“Dazedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/dazedness. Accessed 17 Mar. 2026.

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