vagueness
- noun
- /ˈveɪɡnəs/
- The vagueness of her instructions led to confusion among the team members.
- logic of vagueness
- vagueness doctrine
- avoid vagueness
But many theories and ideas involve vagueness, ambiguity.
- But many theories and ideas involve vagueness, ambiguity.
- But again, Orwell's key advice here is to avoid vagueness.
- Absent explicit terms, a court has two options, either declare the offer void for vagueness or resolve the ambiguity.
- Mathematics consists of extending this method which is completely precise, which has no vagueness in it.
- And at the end of the day, that kind of vagueness creates confusion, creates chaos, creates messiness.
- I mean, the vagueness of this is is on a level that I haven't seen in a modern car ever.
- Strange to say, my notion of Gatsby's vagueness was OK.
- But that raises another problem, which is that often a defense to a contract is vagueness or ambiguity.
- The on center vagueness is there, but when I'm turning it's predictable, it's linear.
- What I'm missing from the stomachs, and you can correct me if I'm wrong, is our solo wants to say, you know, there are there's vagueness.
Examples
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So they can only appeal to voters through vagueness or outright lies about their policy programs.
Blog text (4) -
Second, the vagueness of the term "fundamentalist" makes it difficult to define.
Academic text (2001) -
A fact like that, something solid instead of vagueness, seemed to please him.
Fiction book (1997) -
The very vagueness of the description.
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So, please excuse my vagueness.
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To generate real power, you have to avoid vagueness and be able to specifically state the IS.
Academic text (2011) -
Now this produces vagueness, you know.
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The third is the sin of vagueness claims, which sound good but mean nothing like the phrase all natural.
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The most important thing about "us," finally, is not its rich complexity, but its unresolvable vagueness.
Academic text (2000) -
There is no vagueness in her paintings, no dashing brush strokes, no atmospheric washes.
Academic text (1998)
Synonyms
A lack of clear meaning that allows people to understand it in different ways
A thing that is not exact or clear, for example a measurement
An unclear or uncertain situation that makes meaning hard to know
A lack of clear details that makes something hard to understand
A state when ideas, plans, or memories are not clear
Unclear or hidden information that is hard to understand
Information or speech that is hard to understand and causes confusion
A situation when something is hard to understand
The state of being vague or not clear
A situation where meaning is not clear or exact
A lack of clear or exact meaning
Not being exact causes mistakes
A state of being unclear and hard to understand
A state of being unclear with no definite meaning or edges
A vague, unclear way of expressing ideas
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Not having enough detail makes something unclear
Antonyms
How Vague
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Vagueness comes from the Latin vagari, which means 'to wander', and is the same root as vague and vagrant. So vagueness is like an idea that 'wanders' without a clear path, which is why it means being unclear or not definite.