Total confusion vs Complete confusion

Both 'total confusion' and 'complete confusion' are correct phrases that are commonly used in English. They are interchangeable and convey the same meaning.

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Total confusion

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a state of complete bewilderment or lack of understanding.

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Total confusion obviously reigns in the Member States as far as interpreting the reporting requirement laid down in the relevant Regulation is concerned.
Sounds like a recipe for total confusion.
Subject: Total confusion over telephone charges
There is total confusion in the world about many issues.
The result is total confusion among consumers travelling abroad.
The first organizational manoeuvres of the 1922 fusions laid the bases of the total confusion existing in the present parliamentary and democratic policy of all parties, including the communist party, which thus tore to pieces Lenin's theses on parliament, of the II Congress.
I can guarantee you 100% that you will be in total confusion.
Democracy is also the subject of total confusion.
when their lives are in total confusion.
All my masters are in total confusion.
There was a moment's total confusion because Steiner wasn't visible from the run-off tower where I was standing.
Sometimes moments happen that you do not expect as when in class Frida, in total confusion, is helped by her son.
At a time of total confusion and dismay, many businesses, especially exporters and importers, have closed their doors.
As Ramadan kicks off, NATO's millitary operation in Libya is sinking into total confusion, has observed Alexis Crow.
In Portugal, Minister Manuel Pinho revealed not only his total confusion (and limited power to intervene), but also an unacceptable interference in the regulator's independence.
A rebellious believer will in total confusion and darkness,
in our world of total confusion.
So many people want to teach me what to do, when their lives are in total confusion.
The result of the efforts by the natural man, is total confusion.
[Parsons] You were caught in this vortex of total confusion which you just simply did not know who you could trust.

Alternatives:

complete confusion
utter confusion
absolute confusion
sheer confusion
pure confusion

Complete confusion

This phrase is correct and commonly used in English.

This phrase is used to describe a state of complete bewilderment or lack of understanding.

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What has happened is that there is a complete confusion in economic doctrine between those two sequences.
2007-11-13 22:16:19 - Creating a support system that will change your life Chaos: "complete confusion" and "the formless void before the creation of the universe."This definition describes how I felt about my life several months ago.
Most popular UN: New Zealand tables a draft resolution on Syria amidst complete confusion
If there is one thing the citizens expected from us it was cooperation in order to offer certainty, and what we displayed, for various reasons, and with differing degrees of responsibility, was complete confusion.
As far as anti-parliamentarism on principle is concerned, it can be claimed of the first group that these theories or these tactics, if they are followed theoretically, are based on a complete confusion of the basic concepts of political life.
The city is in complete confusion.
My entire life has been in complete confusion for the last two months.
The twenty-monthly pause between 17 September, 1939 and on June 22, 1941 plunged Kobrin narrow-mindedness into a condition of the complete confusion.
She often lapses into complete confusion.
That is complete confusion about how rebirth works.There is no solid "me" with a solid identity that reincarnates from one lifetime to the next.
They require a lot of strength, energy, time, create a complete confusion in the mind of man, and he is physically no longer able to order in your mind and in strongly-concentrated look at the world and himself.
As an example, if you put a number of people in a large hall facing in various directions and then suddenly yelled at them to start running, they would, of course, collide with one another and you would have a complete confusion.
Thus Romagna and La Marca were again in complete confusion, for Filippo, the king, and the pope, sent powerful assistance to Gismondo, while the Florentines and Venetians supplied the count with money, though not with men.

Alternatives:

total confusion
utter confusion
absolute confusion
sheer confusion
pure confusion

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