indefiniteness

Examples

• All

• Instead of attempting to use language and literature as unitary systems to structure reality, we must embrace reality's multiplicity and indefiniteness and construct a literature that reflects those qualities.

  Academic text (1997)

• His method has been to observe how this Absolute has stimulated these others to display its capacity for indefiniteness.

  Academic text (1993)

• Quinn suggests that "the indefiniteness of 'and' envelops biblical narratives in mystery."

  Academic text (1997)

• How to convey the indefiniteness of the world that surrounded them, that they trusted from one moment to the next in its constancy, even its indifference?

  Fiction book (1991)

• The ambiguity and semantic indefiniteness of proverbs drive their circulation (Yankah 1995: 42).

  Academic text (2009)

• Apparently, anyone who has been engaged in the discourse of absence cannot help but notice the difficulty in bridging the insurmountable gap between the indefiniteness of absence on the one hand and the inadequacy of its rhetoric on the other.

  Academic text (1997)

• I realize how very difficult, potentially disastrous, it is for a non-literary person, a lawyer no less, to whom it is important that words have exact meanings, whose job it is to make sure those meanings are as unambiguous as possible, to venture into the world of poetry where everything is suggestion and shadow, where indefiniteness rules.

  Fiction book (1999)

• The indefiniteness of his explanation left everyone feeling confused about the topic.

• The artist's work is characterized by an intriguing indefiniteness that invites interpretation.

Synonyms

A

ambiguity

vsindefiniteness

57 6.3

A lack of clear meaning that allows people to understand it in different ways

centers on lack of precise definition rather than multiple distinct meanings

V

vagueness

vsindefiniteness

8 6.1

Lack of clear or exact meaning that makes things hard to understand

focuses on lack of precise definition rather than multiple meanings

I

indeterminacy

vsindefiniteness

2 8.9

An unclear or uncertain situation that makes meaning hard to know

highlights lack of precise definition rather than general uncertainty

I

indefinity

vsindefiniteness

9.9

The state of being vague or not clear

is the same meaning but appears as an alternative word form

I

indeterminateness

vsindefiniteness

9.9

A situation where meaning is not clear or exact

is the same idea but used as a different term or form

I

indetermination

vsindefiniteness

9.5

A lack of clear or exact meaning

is the same concept worded differently without changing meaning

N

nebulousness

vsindefiniteness

8.8

A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges

emphasizes missing precise definition rather than blurry physical form

N

nebulosity

vsindefiniteness

9.9

A state of being unclear and hard to understand

points to the same unclear quality but stresses missing precise definition

U

unclarity

vsindefiniteness

7.7

Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion

refers to lacking precise definition rather than difficulty of understanding

U

unclearness

vsindefiniteness

7.7

A situation when something is hard to understand

focuses on missing precise definition rather than general readability

I

indefinability

vsindefiniteness

9.9

A state where you cannot describe something exactly

means lacking precise definition but not claiming impossibility to define

Antonyms

D

definiteness

1 5.6

The quality of being clear and certain so people have no doubt

How Vague

nebulousness

8.8

indefiniteness

1 7.8

vagueness

8 6.1

fuzziness

2 5.8

unclearness

7.7

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology