woolliness

Examples

• All

• Her woolliness in explaining the instructions left many students confused about what to do.

• Debate can often descend into woolliness when participants avoid clear definitions.

• Szeemann's woolliness shows up most glaringly in two areas: race and gender.

  Academic text (2001)

• It soon became apparent that this gorilla-like woolliness was not, in fact, very cool.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Recognizing the relative woolliness of his subject compared to more exact sciences such as geometry, Aristotle nevertheless plunged on to develop his famous principle of the virtuous mean posed between opposite vicious extremes.

  Academic text (2003)

Synonyms

V

vagueness

vswoolliness

8 6.1

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

focuses on unclear expression or thinking in argument and thought

I

incoherence

vswoolliness

5 7.3

Speech or writing that is unclear and hard to follow

means unclear expression but not necessarily a breakdown of logical order

H

haziness

vswoolliness

1 6.3

A state when ideas, plans, or memories are not clear

refers more to imprecise thinking or argument than to just soft focus

I

incoherency

vswoolliness

1 7.5

A lack of clear, organized speech or writing that makes it hard to follow

covers unclear or imprecise thought without requiring disordered presentation

U

unclearness

vswoolliness

7.7

A situation when something is hard to understand

highlights imprecision in reasoning and expression rather than mere confusion

N

nebulousness

vswoolliness

8.8

A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges

is about unclear argument or thought rather than shapelessness of form

N

nebulosity

vswoolliness

9.9

A state of being unclear and hard to understand

points to fuzzy expression in arguments and ideas rather than only form

Antonyms

P

precision

• Specialized

157 4.2

The quality of being exact and giving the same result when repeated

C

clarity

152 3.0

How easy it is to understand what someone says or writes

How Clear

precision

• Specialized

157 4.2

clarity

152 3.0

woolliness

7.0

ambiguity

57 6.3

obscurity

5 7.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology