mazedness

From Middle English mazednesse, mazidnesse; equivalent to mazed +‎ -ness.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪzɪdnɪs/

mazedness (uncountable)

1. The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.
   • 1957, Karl V. Eiker, Star of Macedon:

     I knew not the cause of your mazedness, but 'twas all I could do to keep those stones going.

   • 1986, Richard Poole, Richard Hughes: Novelist, page 112:

     Llwyd, insulated by his mazedness, dwells inwardly in a realm of feminine imagination: his mind is a region of "diamond-like" lucidity across which move the Ellyllon, three fairies whom he knows from folk-legend.

• “mazedness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.