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vagueness

noun

1 vagueness

Unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning.

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

Roget 517: meaninglessness, unmeaningness etc. adj.; scrabble.    empty sound, dead letter, vox et praeterea nihil [Lat.]; a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing;" sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.   " nonsense, utter nonsense, gibberish; ... show more

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

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

Dutch: vaagheid
Polish: niewyraźność

2 vagueness

Indistinctness of shape or character.

Polish: niewyrazistość, nieokreśloność


Moby thesaurus: airiness, airy texture, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, attenuation, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness, bodilessness, broadness, chaos, confusion, dark, darkness, defocus, delicacy, diaphanousness ... show more.

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