Ambiguity synonyms
ăm'bĭ-gyo͝o'ĭ-tē
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Part of speech:
Not clear in meaning or expression; inexplicit.
Not determinate
The state or quality of being doubtful; doubt; uncertainty.
(Obs.) Apprehension or fear
The quality of being difficult to understand; a thing that is difficult to understand.
amphibolous
Having a grammatical structure that allows of two interpretations; equivocal.
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equivocacy
Not clear; indefinite; vague
Insecurity or instability.
uncertainty (related)
Uncertainty is defined as doubt.
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Of or relating to Kabballah.
Feeling doubt; hesitating; skeptical
Defying description.
Open to two or more interpretations and often intended to conceal the truth.
homonymous
Having the same name as another
Indistinctly heard; faint.
Fond of using paradoxes
Of or like the sibyls; prophetic
Not intelligible; unable to be understood
In psychology, ambivalence is defined as the mental disharmony or disconnect a person may feel when having both positive and negative feelings regarding the same individual.
amphibology
(Archaic) Amphiboly.
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The state of being contradicted:
double entente
An equivocal statement or expression.
A means of evading; a subterfuge.
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth. usage syn.
Polysemy is defined as having several meanings, or being open to several interpretations.
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(Now rare) Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.
explicitness (antonym)
The state or characteristic of being explicit.
certainty (antonym)
The fact, quality, or state of being certain, especially:
clearness (antonym)
The state of being free from obstruction or interference. [from 17th c.]
definiteness (antonym)
The state or quality of being definite.
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lucidity (antonym)
The state of being in a lucid dream
clarity (antonym)
The quality or condition of being clear; clearness
The property of being murky (e.g. liquid, style).
The characteristic of being indefinite.
The characteristic of being nebulous.
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The property of being unclear.
The quality of being equivocal.
An equivocal word or expression.
(Pejorative) A word used to qualify a statement so as to make it potentially misleading.
(Chiefly Brit.) Wordy, vague, or indecisive talk or writing
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clear (related)
(Carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
unambiguity (antonym)
The quality of being unambiguous.
doublethink
Thought marked by the acceptance of gross contradictions and falsehoods, especially when used as a technique of self-indoctrination:
inapprehensibility
The quality of being inapprehensible.
incognizability
The state or characteristic of being incommensurable.
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numinousness
The state or quality of being numinous.
polysemousness
ramblingness
twoness
The state or condition of being two; duality; doubleness; duplicity.
unconformability
(Geology) The quality or state of being unconformable.
unconnectedness
The state or property of being unconnected (not connected or joined).
unknowability
The quality or state of being unknowable.
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unsearchableness
inconsistency (related)
misunderstanding (related)
confusion (related)
circularity (related)
subjectivity (related)
indeterminacy (related)
imprecision (related)
dubiosity
(Rare) The state or characteristic of being dubious.
An instance of deliberate deceptiveness; double-dealing.
A perplexing, baffling, or seemingly inexplicable matter, person, etc.
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