Bewilderments (noun): a confusing maze or tangle, as of objects or conditions

“It saw the bewilderment on your face as you stepped out of the stolen matinee, incredulous that there was still daylight after such a long movie.” City Limits -Colson Whitehead.

I encounter the word bewilderments while I was reading City Limits by Colson Whitehead. I’ve never heard or ever seen the word before so it’s pretty brand new to me. I saw the word “wild” in it and thought it might be related to being crazy since we use wild to describe someone or something that’s gone insane. However, the meaning I thought is it different than what it actually mean. The sentence is clearer after replacing bewilderments with confusion in the definition; “it saw the confusion on your face as you stepped out of the stolen matinee.”

Example: There was bewilderments on her face during the meeting.