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Ambiguity

noun

(pl. ambiguities)

An expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context.

Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning. Synonym: equivocalness. Antonyms: unequivocalness, unambiguity.

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"Ambiguity" Quotes from Famous Books

... place special creation in antagonism to evolution is really to use an ambiguous phraseology. No doubt it is not easy to find the proper phraseology. Some have employed the terms "immediate" and "mediate," to which also a certain amount of ambiguity is attached. Perhaps "direct" and "derivative" might convey more accurate ideas; but whatever terminology we adopt, we are still safe in saying that whether God makes things or makes them make themselves He is creating them and specially ...

— Science and Morals and Other Essays • Bertram Coghill Alan Windle

... Ambiguity is one of those intangible nothings that get into the atmosphere and have a trick of remaining there. Marie seemed in some subtle way to pervade the atmosphere of Msala. It would seem that Guy Oscard, ...

— With Edged Tools • Henry Seton Merriman

... 1. Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only a habit or mode of the faculty. 192 Sec. 2. The ambiguity of conception. 192 Sec. 3. Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things. 193 Sec. 4. But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them. 194 Sec. 5. The third office of fancy distinguished from imagination ...

— Modern Painters Volume II (of V) • John Ruskin

... in Gibbon, with a malicious. The foppish irony fretting to be seen, and the irony which leers, that you shall not mistake its intention, are failures in satiric effort pretending to the treasures of ambiguity. ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... influence of this divine power, the Daemonion, as he calls it. He shows how the Deity visits the sins of the ancestors upon their descendants, how man rushes, as it were, wilfully upon his own destruction, and how oracles mislead by their ambiguity, when interpreted by blind passion. He shows his awe of the divine Nemesis by his moderation and the firmness with which he keeps down the ebullitions of national pride. He points out traits of greatness of character in the ...

— Handbook of Universal Literature - From The Best and Latest Authorities • Anne C. Lynch Botta

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