the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered
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Mystification \Mys`ti*fi*ca"tion\, n. [Cf. F. mystification.] The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.
The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace. --De Quincey.
The most serious mistake in the Iran-Contra affair was his display of mystification over what had been happening in his own White House.
In this book, as in the last one, Lee Iacocca is a veritable mother lode of charming self-contradiction, corporate shaggy dog stories, misinformation and mystification.
On the contrary, they are some of the most frequently repeated commercials presently appearing on ITV and Channel 4, and there are plenty more like them, where mystification seems to be paramount.