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ambiguity

noun

1 ambiguity

An expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context.

Roget 571: obscurity etc. (unintelligibility) 519; involution; hard words; ambiguity etc. 520; unintelligibleness; vagueness etc. 475, inexactness ... show more

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. ... show more

Roget 475: uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness etc. adj.; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness.    hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, ... show more

Dutch: ambiguïteit, dubbelzinnigheid
Polish: niejasność

2 ambiguity

Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning.

synonym: equivocalness.

Roget 520: equivocalness etc. adj.; double meaning etc. 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre [Fr.], pun, paragram, calembour, quibble, equivoque [Fr.], ... show more

Dutch: dubbelzinnigheid
Polish: niejednoznaczność, ambiwalencja, dwuznaczność, ambiwalentność


Moby thesaurus: Janus, ambivalence, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly, antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, cavil, conjugation, counterword, dichotomy, disproportion, disproportionateness, dodge, double entendre, double meaning, double-talk, doubleness ... show more.

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