mystification

From French mystification.

mystification (countable and uncountable, plural mystifications)

1. The act of mystifying or the condition of being mystified.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light:Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 12:

     For a structuralist like Edmund Leach, the structure is the meaning. Genesis, for example, is about incest taboos; all the rest is noise and mystification.

2. A mystifying thing.

• bafflement
• bewilderment
• obfuscation

mystifier +‎ -ification

• IPA^(key): /mis.ti.fi.ka.sjɔ̃/

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mystification f (plural mystifications)

1. mystification

• “mystification”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.