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am·bi·gu·i·ty

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–noun, plural -ties.

1.	doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.

2.	an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.

[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME ambiguite < L ambiguitās, equiv. to ambigu(us) ambiguous + -itās -ity

]

—Synonyms 1. vagueness, deceptiveness. 2. equivocation.

—Antonyms 1. explicitness, clarity.

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am·bi·gu·i·ty Audio Help (ām'bĭ-gyōō'ĭ-tē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. am·bi·gu·i·ties

Doubtfulness or uncertainty as regards interpretation: "leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity" (Anatole Broyard).
Something of doubtful meaning: a poem full of ambiguities.

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ambiguity
noun
1.	an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
2.	unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [ant: unambiguity]

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Ambiguity

Am`bi*gu"i*ty\, n.; pl. Ambiguities. [L. ambiguitas, fr. ambiguus: cf. F. ambiguit['e].] The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

No shadow of ambiguity can rest upon the course to be pursued. --I. Taylor.

The words are of single signification, without any ambiguity. --South.

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