'ambiguity' definitions:
Definition of 'ambiguity'
(from WordNet)
noun
An expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
noun
Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [syn: ambiguity, equivocalness] [ant: unambiguity, unequivocalness]
Synonyms of 'ambiguity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambivalence,
- amphibologism,
- amphibology,
- amphiboly,
- antinomy,
- asymmetry,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- cavil,
- conjugation,
- counterword,
- dichotomy,
- disproportion,
- disproportionateness,
- dodge,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double-talk,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocal,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- equivoque,
- evasion,
- haggling,
- hair-splitting,
- halving,
- hedge,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heterogeneity,
- impenetrability,
- imprecision,
- inapprehensibility,
- inarticulateness,
- incognizability,
- incoherence,
- incommensurability,
- incompatibility,
- incomprehensibility,
- inconclusiveness,
- incongruity,
- inconsistency,
- inconsonance,
- indefiniteness,
- indistinctness,
- inscrutability,
- irony,
- irreconcilability,
- Janus,
- nonconformability,
- nonconformity,
- numinousness,
- obscurity,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- polarity,
- polysemant,
- polysemousness,
- portmanteau word,
- pun,
- quibbling,
- ramblingness,
- self-contradiction,
- shift,
- squinting construction,
- subterfuge,
- tergiversation,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- unconformability,
- unconformity,
- unconnectedness,
- unfathomableness,
- unintelligibility,
- unknowability,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsearchableness,
- vagueness,
- weasel word