Confounding

Quick meaning: Confounding is a verb meaning present participle and gerund of confound.

Meaning

present participle and gerund of confound.

More Meanings

1. The act by which things are confounded, or confused.
2. (epidemiology) The process by which an apparent association between an exposure and an outcome is actually explained by another factor.
3. Confusing, bewildering, baffling or perplexing.

Example Sentences

It is too suggestive and too confounding to be met but in the spirit of study.

Theſe things are very confounding, and no Man can be prepar'd to debate with Men, that will thus go upon all manner of Poſſibilities.

Confounding is defined as the confusion or distortion of measures of association between exposure and outcome as a result of third (or more) variable(s).

We have to with a Heart ſearching God, who will find out every unworthy Communicant to his utter Shame and Confuſion ; when God examins ſuch, his Queſtions will be Nonpluſſing and Confounding,[…]

Word Forms

• confoundings

Synonyms for confounding

Depending on context, synonyms include contradictory, confusion, mix-up, unsupportive.

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Related dictionary entries include confusion, mix-up, contradictory, unsupportive, confused, bewilderment.

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