ambiguity
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌæm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/
:
ambigüedad
- The ambiguity in her statement led to confusion about her true intentions.
- reduce ambiguity
- avoid ambiguity
- resolve ambiguity
It's a conflict that has no moral ambiguities or grey areas.
- It's a conflict that has no moral ambiguities or grey areas.
- I think the word bomb has a similar ambiguity in our two countries.
- So there's an ambiguity about this position.
- Question came in with respect to the ambiguity and the wording that I mentioned.
- In law school, you have to be OK with ambiguity.
- They're too often a source of, of ambiguity.
- I was always comfortable with ambiguity.
- Is it possible to formalize some of these ideas that that reduce the ambiguity?
- There is no ambiguity that APOB is causally related to atherosclerosis.
- Yet what you're doing is sell in ambiguity and nuance and subtlety.
- But if you're good with ambiguity, there you go.
- So it's part of it like the ambiguity in the language.
- You know, Spinoza Kant, he brings up their ambiguities within their work.
Examples
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There is some ambiguity here on who or what we means.
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There is no ambiguity, my Lord.
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So it's the same ambiguity that you have here.
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But in times of ambiguity, I think we love it.
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You can have no ambiguity on this issue.
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Look, give me ambiguity or give me something else.
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So that leaves some ambiguity about the big question of Iran.
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Others said there was more consistency and less ambiguity in the way work was done in the department.
Academic text (1999) -
I think ambiguity is a feature, not a bug in human spoken languages.
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By informing students of specific criteria, the teacher eliminated some of the ambiguity in the task.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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6.1
Lack of clear or exact meaning that makes things hard to understand
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8.3
How hard something is to understand because it is unclear
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8.9
An unclear or uncertain situation that makes meaning hard to know
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7.7
A state of having two different meanings or sides at the same time
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7.8
A lack of clear details that makes something hard to understand
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6.7
Unclear or hidden information that is hard to understand
A situation where something has more than one meaning and causes confusion
A word or phrase with more than one meaning that causes confusion
One word that has two or more different meanings
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
A situation where meaning is not clear or exact
The state of being vague or not clear
A lack of clear or exact meaning
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Antonyms
Compounds
How Ambiguous
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Ambiguity comes from the Latin parts ambi- meaning 'both' and agere meaning 'to drive', so imagine something being pulled in two directions. That's why ambiguity means something is unclear or has more than one meaning.