Synonyms for distraction
dɪˈstræk ʃəndis·trac·tion

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1. distraction

   Perplexity (Latin per, through, and plecto, plait) is the drawing or turning of the thoughts or faculties by turns in different directions or toward contrasted or contradictory conclusions; confusion (Latin confusus, from confundo, pour together) is a state in which the mental faculties are, as it were, thrown into chaos, so that the clear and distinct action of the different powers, as of perception, memory, reason, and will is lost; bewilderment is akin to confusion, but is less overwhelming, and more readily recovered from; perplexity, accordingly, has not the unsettling of the faculties implied in confusion, nor the overwhelming of the faculties implied in amazement or astonishment; it is not the magnitude of the things to be known, but the want of full and definite knowledge, that causes perplexity. The dividing of a woodland path may cause the traveler the greatest perplexity, which may become bewilderment when he has tried one path after another and lost his bearings completely. With an excitable person bewilderment may deepen into confusion that will make him unable to think clearly or even to see or hear distinctly. Amazement results from the sudden and unimagined occurrence of great good or evil or the sudden awakening of the mind to unthought-of truth. Astonishment often produces bewilderment, which the word was formerly understood to imply. Compare AMAZEMENT; ANXIETY; DOUBT.

   Synonyms:
   amazement, astonishment, bewilderment, confusion, disturbance, doubt, doubt, embarrassment, perplexity

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1. distraction

   Synonyms:
   inattention, madness, absence

   Antonyms:
   attention, composure

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1. distractionnoun

   mental turmoil

   "he drives me to distraction"

   Synonyms:
   beguilement, misdirection

2. distractionnoun

   an obstacle to attention

   Synonyms:
   beguilement, misdirection

3. beguilement, distractionnoun

   an entertainment that provokes pleased interest and distracts you from worries and vexations

   Synonyms:
   beguilement, bewitchery, misdirection, animal magnetism

4. distraction, misdirectionnoun

   the act of distracting; drawing someone's attention away from something

   "conjurers are experts at misdirection"

   Synonyms:
   beguilement, misdirection, mismanagement

Matched Categories

1. • Confusion
   • Entertainment
   • Inattention

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1. distractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   confusion, perplexity, embarrassment, bewilderment, abstraction, mystification

2. distractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   disturbance, discord, tumult, disorder, division, perturbation, commotion, turmoil, agitation

3. distractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   derangement, madness, raving, insanity, alienation, aberration, incoherence, wandering, delirium, mania, lunacy, raving, hallucination, loss of the senses, disordered intellect or faculties, loss of reason

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1. distractionnoun

   Synonyms:
   diversion, amusement, confusion, mystification, bewilderment, tumult, commotion, hurly-burly, despair, frenzy

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1. List of paraphrases for "distraction":

   diversion, entertainment, forgetfulness, amusement

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1. Chaka Fattah:

   And I want to spend my time helping millions more, i'm going to let my attorney -- a small one-man shop in Philadelphia -- handle this matter. It's obviously going to be important to my constituents that this matter not be a distraction in terms of my work, and I'm going to try to have it not be a distraction.

2. Chuck Hagel:

   This is folly. This is political distraction of the highest magnitude.

3. Paul Ryan:

   Chairman Nunes wants to make sure this is not a distraction to a very important investigation.

4. Angela Rayner:

   Millions of people are struggling to pay the bills, but Boris Johnson and Boris Johnson government are too wrapped up in scandal to do anything about it, boris Johnson is a national distraction. Conservative MPs should stop propping Boris Johnson up and Boris Johnson should finally do the decent thing and resign.

5. Donald Trump:

   That is, I guess, the ultimate distraction from what's really going on in this country which is, you have a Republican president, a very conservative president, who is getting stuff done, and they can't handle that. They will do anything they can to try to stop that, to try to block that, to try to prevent that from happening.