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3 definitions found
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Ambiguity \Am'bi*gu"i*ty\, noun; 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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
ambiguity
noun
1: an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its
context
2: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [syn:
{equivocalness}] [ant: {unambiguity}, {unambiguity}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
92 Moby Thesaurus words for "ambiguity":
Janus, ambivalence, amphibologism, amphibology, amphiboly,
antinomy, asymmetry, biformity, bifurcation, cavil, conjugation,
counterword, dichotomy, disproportion, disproportionateness, dodge,
double entendre, double meaning, double-talk, doubleness,
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, 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
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