vagueness

Meanings

• The lack of clarity or preciseness of a concept, term, or expression.

  - "The concept of time is vague."
  - "The meaning of the word 'good' is vague."
  - "The definition of a 'democracy' is vague."

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Rhymes

Words rhyming with vagueness
vague , cage , page , gauge , bargain , arrange , rearrange , constrain , maintain , sustain , endorse , support , assist , back , prop , prop up , hold up , keep going , persist , persevere , go on , carry on , press on , continue , keep at it , stay the course , finish , complete , fulfill

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Variants

List of all variants of vagueness that leads to same result
vague , vagueness , vaguenesses , vaguer , vaguest

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Etymology

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

The term 'vagueness' comes from the Old French word 'vague', which means 'uncertain', 'doubtful', or 'vague' in meaning.

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Quotes

Quotes by authors and personalities

1. At the end of half an hour Tom had a "vague" general idea of his lesson, but no more, for his mind was traversing the whole field of human thought, and his hands were busy with distracting recreations.

   - Mark Twain,{it}Tom Sawyer{/it},1876

2. There are "vague" memories in our souls of those misty centuries when the world was in its childhood.

   - Arthur Conan Doyle,{it}A Study in Scarlet{/it},1887

3. It thrilled him with a "vague" uncertain horror, to know that behind the dusky shroud, there were ghostly eyes intently fixed upon him, while he, though he stretched his own to the utmost, could see nothing but a spectral hand and one great heap of black.

   - Charles Dickens,{it}A Christmas Carol{/it},1843

4. When my three years of military service ended, I looked around for some way to get to spend time in rural Vietnam as a civilian. The driving force was still primarily intellectual curiosity, along with a desire to improve my language ability in a non-Western language and some "vague" idea of doing folkloristic or literary studies in the future.

   - Neil L. Jamieson,{it}Understanding Vietnam{/it},(1993) 1995

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