inconclusiveness

Examples

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• The inconclusiveness of the detective tale may also have a literary explanation.

  Academic text (1994)

• Such an opportunity recently arose during hearings before the House Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, where one industry spokesperson pointed to the EPA report as demonstrating the inconclusiveness of the existence of a problem.

  Academic text (1993)

• This inconclusiveness and inconsistency had an especially strong effect on our decisions of 1987, which were the basis of the reforms that were carried out.

  Academic text (1991)

• The end of the novel privileges the interpretive inconclusiveness within which the audience members are stuck as they leave the gathering.

  Academic text (2017)

• For these conflicts are not just closer in time and generation, but are more similar in their substance and form, and in their loss and inconclusiveness, to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq than the Good War is to the Afghan and Iraq Wars.

  Blog text (11)

• The explanation that Crick offers is extremely suggestive, particularly as it comes near the novel's abrupt end, which renders the account's inconclusiveness even more dramatic.

  Academic text (2017)

• Attention is deflected from the problems that the novels raise, and we find ourselves drawn into a puzzling inconclusiveness as soon as we try to take them seriously as thematic statements.

  Academic text (1991)

• Hence, the detective's absence from Rodolfo's story accounts for its inconclusiveness, which correspondingly mirrors Moreno's own indecisiveness.

  Academic text (1994)

• While such conciliatory goals certainly may be inferred from this moment in Three Guineas, it is crucial to emphasize the inconclusiveness of her seemingly conclusive vision of "men and women working together for the same cause." 5

  Academic text (2017)

• Perhaps the intensity with which she superimposes the need for and the inconclusiveness of belonging was, as Victoria Glendenning has observed, most poignantly evident at the end of A Time in Rome, completed in 1960.

  Academic text (2010)

Synonyms

I

indeterminacy

vsinconclusiveness

2 8.9

An unclear or uncertain situation that makes meaning hard to know

is about failing to reach a definite result or final decision

U

undecidability

vsinconclusiveness

9.9

A situation when people cannot tell what is true because there is not enough evidence

is a less absolute state that fails to produce a final decision

I

indeterminateness

vsinconclusiveness

9.9

A situation where meaning is not clear or exact

is concerned with not producing a final outcome or decision

N

noncertainty

vsinconclusiveness

8.8

A feeling of not being sure about something

is about failing to reach a definite conclusion rather than personal doubt

Antonyms

C

conclusiveness

6.8

A final result that leaves no doubt

How Conclusive

definitiveness

6.2

conclusiveness

6.8

inconclusiveness

7.7

uncertainty

296 4.0

ambiguity

57 6.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology