ambiguity (redirected from ambiguities)

am·bi·gu·i·ty  (mb-gy-t)

n. pl. am·bi·gu·i·ties

1. Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: "leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity" (Anatole Broyard).

2. Something of doubtful meaning: a poem full of ambiguities.

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ambiguity

Noun

pl -ties

1. the possibility of interpreting an expression in more than one way

2. an ambiguous situation or expression: the ambiguities of feminine identity

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	ambiguity - an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context loophole - an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation amphibology, amphiboly - an ambiguous grammatical construction; e.g., `they are flying planes' can mean either that someone is flying planes or that something is flying planes parisology - the use of ambiguous words double entendre - an ambiguity with one interpretation that is indelicate locution, saying, expression - a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations; "pardon the expression"
	2.	ambiguity - unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning equivocalness unclearness - incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear evasiveness, prevarication, equivocation - intentionally vague or ambiguous lexical ambiguity, polysemy - the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings twilight zone, no man's land - the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both); "but there is still a twilight zone, the tantalizing occurrences that are probably noise but might possibly be a signal"; "in the twilight zone between humor and vulgarity"; "in that no man's land between negotiation and aggression" unambiguity, unequivocalness - clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity

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ambiguity

noun vagueness, doubt, puzzle, uncertainty, obscurity, enigma, equivocation, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, dubiety, dubiousness, tergiversation, indeterminateness, equivocality, doubtfulness, equivocacy

Translations

ambiguity [æmbɪˈgjuɪtɪ] n → ambigüedad f [of meaning] → doble sentido

ambiguity [æmbɪˈgjuɪtɪ] n → ambiguïté f

ambiguity [æmbɪˈgjuɪtɪ] n → Zweideutigkeit f;

(lack of clarity) → Unklarheit f

ambiguity [æmbɪˈgjuɪtɪ] n → ambiguità f inv