Verb (used with object), : The flood of questions confused me. ,The rumors and angry charges tended to confuse the issue. ,to confuse dates; He always confuses the twins. ,His candor confused her. ,Try not to confuse the papers on the desk.    From Dictionary.com. 

Opposite to confusedness of ideas is distinctness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antoine Arnauld] Reference

WV: echami: A state of confusedness, such as one brought on by this CCC.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hey Everybody, Do You Know What Time It Is?] Reference

Any deceptiveness in our ideas derives from their confusedness and is the result of our misuse of freedom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Antoine Arnauld] Reference

A larger-scale version of the sextet of spirits which closes act I, act IV moves with the quickness and confusedness of a full Mozartian concerted finale.    From Wordnik.com.  ['An assiduous frequenter of the Italian opera': Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound and the opera buffa] Reference

In general, causation is to be understood as an increase in distinctness on the part of the causally active substance, and an increase in confusedness on the part of the passively effected substance.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leibniz's Philosophy of Mind] Reference

What now if another should say that “this same formlessness and confusedness of matter, was for this reason first conveyed under the name of heaven and earth, because out of it was this visible world with all those natures which most manifestly appear in it, which is ofttimes called by the name of heaven and earth, created and perfected?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Confessions] Reference

This has oftentimes led to dozens of confusedness in designation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blogpulse Top Links] Reference

Every careful reader has noticed the confusedness of Paul's mind and arguments.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pagan and Christian creeds: their origin and meaning] Reference

For instance, here are some of the stories told me, taken from the life, and in all their native confusedness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Diary of a French Army Chaplain]

Am I rambling and asking a lot of questions out of sheer confusedness at the unfathomable situation I see approaching?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Major League Baseball] Reference

However, if he will but reason as he should do, we will not fall out with him for the confusedness of his method, because he professes and vindicates inaccuracy and negli - gence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cicero's Five Books De Finibus: Or, Concerning the Last Object of Desire and Aversion] Reference

These give the law, and in it the method, both of arranging the phænomena and of substantiating appearances into facts of science; with a success proportionate to the clearness or confusedness of the insight into the law.    From Wordnik.com.  [S. T. Coleridge - The Friend] Reference

It is therefore a manifest consequence from what bath been demonstrated, that instead of the greater or lesser divergency of the rays, the mind makes use of the greater or lesser confusedness of the appearance, thereby to determine the apparent place of an OBJECT.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision] Reference

Whereas had the learned doctor observed that diverging and converging rays, how opposite soever they may seem, do nevertheless agree in producing the same effect, to wit, confusedness of vision, greater degrees whereof are produced indifferently, either as the divergency or convergency and the rays increaseth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision] Reference