indeterminateness

Examples

• All

• This sense of indeterminateness is simply a result of the way the text offers and invites different perspectives and interpretations of the nature of Gregor's change.

  Academic text (1996)

• Unless a situation is uniquely qualified in its very indeterminateness, there is a condition of complete panic; response to it takes the form of blind and wild overt activities (LW 12:109).

  Academic text (2016)

• If Wittgenstein was pointing to (or had pointed to) the poverty of the absolute in itself for the sake of an appreciation for the richness of an absolute-infinite and the indeterminateness to be associated with it, then this, too, would have set the stage for pluralism.

  Blog text (13)

• That immanence is actually a common ground insofar as the importance of the transcendent is not separable from the concern with effecting the transcendent (despite its indeterminateness or indefiniteness) within the context of the natural world (so to speak).

  Blog text (13)

• Due to the indeterminateness of the plan, we couldn't decide how to proceed.

• Her speech was marked by an indeterminateness that made it hard to understand her main point.

Synonyms

A

ambiguity

vsindeterminateness

57 6.3

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

is vagueness in precise definition rather than multiple distinct meanings

V

vagueness

vsindeterminateness

8 6.1

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

is focused on not being precisely defined rather than lacking form

I

indeterminacy

vsindeterminateness

2 8.9

An unclear or uncertain situation that makes meaning hard to know

is about vagueness in precise definition rather than uncertainty of status

I

indefiniteness

vsindeterminateness

1 7.8

A lack of clear details that makes something hard to understand

is the same idea but appears as another lexical form

I

indefinity

vsindeterminateness

9.9

The state of being vague or not clear

is the same meaning but shown as a different word form

I

indetermination

vsindeterminateness

9.5

A lack of clear or exact meaning

is the same notion presented with a different word choice

N

nebulosity

vsindeterminateness

9.9

A state of being unclear and hard to understand

is the same vagueness but without the imagery of mist or cloud

N

nebulousness

vsindeterminateness

8.8

A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges

is vagueness in meaning but not necessarily using cloud imagery

I

impreciseness

vsindeterminateness

7.9

Not being exact causes mistakes

is vagueness about definition rather than simple numerical inaccuracy

U

unclarity

vsindeterminateness

7.7

Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion

is vagueness in precise definition rather than general difficulty understanding

U

unclearness

vsindeterminateness

7.7

A situation when something is hard to understand

is about not being precisely defined rather than being merely hard to understand

I

indistinctness

vsindeterminateness

7.0

Lack of clear detail that makes things hard to see or hear

is vagueness in meaning or definition rather than only unclear shape

I

indistinction

vsindeterminateness

8.6

Not clearly separate from something else

is vagueness about definition rather than lack of separation from other things

I

indefinability

vsindeterminateness

9.9

A state where you cannot describe something exactly

is vagueness about lacking precise definition but not impossibility

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 Defined

certainty

• Literature

202 3.4

clarity

152 3.0

uncertainty

296 4.0

indeterminateness

9.9

vagueness

8 6.1

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology