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Unambiguity

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Un`am`bi`gu´i`ty
n.1.Absence of ambiguity; clearness; perspicuity.
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Noun1.unambiguity - clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity - free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
equivocalness, ambiguity - unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning


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Hence, in While you were out, 2003, Dirk Stewen reappropriates objects--a silk tie, a paper streamer, a cock ring--that have coded but clear meanings in gay and other subcultures, releasing them from their strict unambiguity and placing them in a new, meaning-devoid flippancy that might still be called formalistic.
If and when Sinn Fein finally pluck up the courage to publish the statement, we will be able to make our own judgements on their clarity and unambiguity.
The placement of the modifier "not" is crucial for unambiguity and for correct interpretation.
 
 
 
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