The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.

Confusion from a multiplicity of objects crowding on the mind and calling the attention different ways; perturbation of mind; perplexity; as, the family was in a state of distraction. [See 7 Corinthians 7:35.I .

Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as political distractions. Never was known a e night of such distraction.

Madness; a state of disordered reason; franticness; furiousness.

Folly in the extreme, or amounting to insanity. On the supposition of the truth of the birth, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, irreligion is nothing better than distraction.