ambiguity
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6.3
- noun
- /ˌæm.bɪˈɡjuː.ɪ.ti/
- The ambiguity in her statement led to confusion about her true intentions.
- reduce ambiguity
- avoid ambiguity
- resolve ambiguity
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Watch on YouTubeIt'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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7.8
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
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8.7
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
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8.4
A word or phrase with more than one meaning that causes confusion
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7.7
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
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7.7
A state of having two different meanings or sides at the same time
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8.3
One word that has two or more different meanings
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9.9
A situation where meaning is not clear or exact
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8.8
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
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9.5
A lack of clear or exact meaning
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7.7
A situation when something is hard to understand
A situation where something has more than one meaning and causes confusion
The state of being vague or not clear
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.4
A word or phrase with more than one meaning that causes confusion
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.