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Ambiguity

Ambiguity Meaning & Definition
Ambiguity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Ambiguity?

[n] unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
[n] an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

Synonyms | Synonyms for Ambiguity: equivocalness

Related Terms | Find terms related to Ambiguity: ambivalence | amphibologism | amphibology | amphiboly | antinomy | asymmetry | biformity | bifurcation | cavil | conjugation | counterword | dichotomy | disproportion | disproportionateness | dodge | double entendre | double meaning | doubleness | double-talk | doublethink | doubling | dualism | duality | duplexity | duplication | duplicity | equivocacy | equivocal | equivocality | equivocalness | equivocation | equivoque | evasion | haggling | hair-splitting | halving | hedge | heresy | heterodoxy | heterogeneity | impenetrability | imprecision | inapprehensibility | inarticulateness | incognizability | incoherence | incommensurability | incompatibility | incomprehensibility | inconclusiveness | incongruity | inconsistency | inconsonance | indefiniteness | indistinctness | inscrutability | irony | irreconcilability | Janus | nonconformability | nonconformity | numinousness | obscurity | oxymoron | pairing | paradox | polarity | polysemant | polysemousness | portmanteau word | pun | quibbling | ramblingness | self-contradiction | shift | squinting construction | subterfuge | tergiversation | twinning | two-facedness | twoness | uncertainty | unconformability | unconformity | unconnectedness | unfathomableness | unintelligibility | unknowability | unorthodoxy | unsearchableness | vagueness | weasel word

See Also | amphibology | amphiboly | double entendre | equivocation | evasiveness | expression | lexical ambiguity | locution | loophole | parisology | polysemy | prevarication | saying | unclearness

Ambiguity In Webster's Dictionary

\Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Ambiguities}. [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit['e].] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. --I. Taylor. The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. --South.

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