AMBIGUITY


Meaning of AMBIGUITY in English

noun

expression or an expression obscure because subject to more than one interpretation

a speech full of ambiguities

Synonyms: amphibology, double entendre, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, tergiversation

Related Word: dodge, evasion, hedge, quibble, shift, subterfuge; cavil, haggling, hairsplitting, quibbling; obscurity, uncertainty, vagueness

Contrasted words: definiteness, expressness, specificity; clearness, exactness, precision

Antonyms: explicitness; lucidity

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