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vagueness
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vagueness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unclearness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambiguousness, cloudiness, equivocalness, obscurity, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
| Synonyms: | anagram, double meaning, double-entendre, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enigma, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, obscurity, polysemousness, polysemy, puzzle, tergiversation, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, clarity, clearness, definiteness, explicitness, lucidity |
| Main Entry: | fog |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental unclarity |
| Synonyms: | befuddlement, blindness, confusion, daze, haze, maze, mist, muddledness, muddlement, obscurity, perplexity, stupor, trance, vagueness |
| Notes: | haze is atmospheric moisture or dust or smoke that causes reduced visibility while fog is droplets of water vapor suspended in the air near the ground causing reduced visibility |
| Antonyms: | cognizance, understanding |
| Main Entry: | ignorance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unintelligence, inexperience |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiteracy, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | competence, cultivation, education, experience, intelligence, knowledge, literacy, talent, wisdom |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, doubtfulness, dubiety, guesswork, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, mystification, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, qualm, quandary, query, questionableness, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, unpredictability, vagueness, wonder, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, security, sureness |
| Main Entry: | equivocality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambiguity |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous statement, ambiguousness, double meaning, equivocalness, equivocation, equivoque, indefiniteness, unclearness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | equivocalness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambiguity |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous statement, ambiguousness, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, indefiniteness, unclearness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | equivoque |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ambiguity |
| Synonyms: | ambiguous statement, ambiguousness, avoidance, deceit, deception, double meaning, equivocality, equivocalness, equivocation, evasion, indefiniteness, prevarication, stonewalling, tergiversation, unclearness, vagueness |
| Main Entry: | illiteracy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | ignorance |
| Synonyms: | benightedness, bewilderment, blindness, callowness, crudeness, darkness, denseness, disregard, dumbness, empty-headedness, fog*, half-knowledge, illiterateness, incapacity, incomprehension, innocence, inscience, insensitivity, lack of education, mental incapacity, naiveté, nescience, oblivion, obtuseness, philistinism, rawness, sciolism, shallowness, simplicity, unawareness, unconsciousness, uncouthness, unenlightenment, unfamiliarity, unscholarliness, vagueness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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