the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered something designed to mystify or bewilder
{i} act of causing (someone or something) to become mysterious; obscuration; puzzlement, perplexity, act of causing a person to be unable to understand
The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify
If you are mystified by something, you find it impossible to explain or understand. The audience must have been totally mystified by the plot There was something strange in her attitude which mystified me. = baffle + mystifying mys·ti·fy·ing I find your attitude a little mystifying, Moira. = puzzling. if something mystifies you, it is so strange or confusing that you cannot understand or explain it = baffle (mystifier, from mystère; MYSTERY PLAY)