vagueness

vague  (vg)

adj. vagu·er, vagu·est

1. Not clearly expressed; inexplicit.

2. Not thinking or expressing oneself clearly.

3. Lacking definite shape, form, or character; indistinct: saw a vague outline of a building through the fog.

4. Not clear in meaning or application. See Synonyms at ambiguous.

5. Indistinctly felt, perceived, understood, or recalled; hazy: a vague uneasiness.

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[French, from Old French, wandering, from Latin vagus.]

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vaguely adv.

vagueness n.

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Vagueness 

1. (The image) blurred … like something familiar seen beneath disturbed though clear water —William Faulkner
2. (The consonants) blur together like ink on a wet page —Sue Grafton
3. Clear as mud —Richard Harris Barham

   This typifies the quick, humorous similes that were most often imported by New Englanders to add color to American speech.

4. Obscure as a bureaucrat’s memorandum —Anon
5. Obscure as modesty —Sidney Lanier
6. (Eye … ) opaque as a muddy pool —F. Scott Fitzgerald
7. Opaque as a milk-glass bowl —Linda West Eckhardt

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	vagueness - unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey" unclearness - incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear haziness - vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined
	2.	vagueness - indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner" blurriness, fuzziness, indistinctness, fogginess, softness - the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines

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vagueness

noun

1. impreciseness, ambiguity, obscurity, looseness, inexactitude, woolliness, undecidedness, lack of preciseness the vagueness of the language used in the text
impreciseness precision, clarity, exactness, definition, obviousness, clearness, preciseness

2. absent-mindedness, abstraction, forgetfulness, confusion, inattention, disorganization, giddiness, dreaminess, befuddlement, empty-headedness her deliberately affected vagueness

Translations

vagueness [ˈveɪgnɪs] N

1. (= imprecision) → vaguedad f, imprecisión f

2. (= absent-mindedness) → distracción f

vagueness [ˈveɪgnɪs] n

[language, question, statement] → caractère m vague

vagueness

n

→ Unbestimmtheit f, → Vagheit f; (of outline, shape) → Verschwommenheit f; (of report, question) → Vagheit f, → Ungenauigkeit f; the vagueness of the resemblance → die entfernte Ähnlichkeit; his vagueness on Dutch politics → seine lückenhafte or wenig fundierte Kenntnis der holländischen Politik

(= absent-mindedness) → Geistesabwesenheit f, → Zerstreutheit f; the vagueness of her look → ihr abwesender or (puzzled) → verwirrter Blick

vagueness [ˈveɪgnɪs] n (of outline) → indeterminatezza; (of meaning) → vaghezza; (of person) → distrazione f