ambiguousness

Meanings

• lack of clarity or definiteness

  - "The instructions for assembling the furniture were ambiguous."
  - "The politician's response to a question was ambiguous, leaving many wondering what he really meant."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with ambiguousness
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Variants

List of all variants of ambiguousness that leads to same result
ambiguous , ambiguously , ambiguousness , ambiguousnesses

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Etymology

origin and the way in which meanings have changed throughout history.

From Middle English ambiguus, from Late Latin ambiguus, from ambire ‘go around’ +-bus ‘state, condition’.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. He seeks sources for the speech's ideas in Lincoln's "ambiguous" stance toward organized religion, in the sermons of preachers he listened to, and in his Bible-reading habit.

   - Gilbert Taylor,{it}Booklist{/it},15 Dec. 2001

2. Greater familiarity with this artist makes one's assessment of him more tentative rather than less. His best pictures exude a hypersensitive, "ambiguous" aura of grace.

   - Peter Schjeldahl,{it}New Yorker{/it},10 Mar. 2003

3. In Mexico we follow the fraught, "ambiguous" journey of a Tijuana cop … caught between the ruthless, corrupt general … he works for and the DEA, which wants him to inform on his countrymen.

   - David Ansen,{it}Newsweek{/it},8 Jan. 2001

4. Physicians could manipulate reimbursement rules to help their patients obtain coverage for care that the physicians perceive to be necessary, for example, through "ambiguous" documentation or by exaggerating the severity of patients' conditions.

   - Michael K. Wynia et al.,{it}Journal of the American Medical Association{/it},12 Apr. 2000

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