Definition for Ambiguity:

• There are two sorts of amiguities of words, ambiguitas latens and ambiguitas patens.

Synonyms for Ambiguity:

• n.

  •Jekyll and Hyde (noun)
  • two facedness,
  • proteuses,
  • twofacedness,
  • jekyll hyde,
  • double lives.
  •
  • confusion,
  • muddle.
  •
  • hollow,
  • ill-defined,
  • clear.
  •
  • shuffle,
  • waffle,
  • hedge.
  •ambiguity (noun)
  • dubiety,
  • doubtfulness,
  • dubiousness,
  • polysemy,
  • indeterminateness,
  • enigma,
  • Woolliness,
  • ambivalence.
  •cloudiness (noun)
  • muddinesses,
  • opaquenesses.
  •communication (noun)
  • ambiguity.
  •deception (noun)
  • sophistry.
  •double entendre (noun)
  • amphibiologies,
  • double meanings.
  •doubt (noun)
  • scruple,
  • lack of confidence,
  • agnosticism,
  • demurral,
  • waverings,
  • scruples.
  •doubtfulness (noun)
  • incertitude.
  •dual personality (noun)
  • Jekyll And Hyde.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • equivocalness.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • mis-interpretation,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • un-truths,
  • inexactnesses,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • in-consistencies,
  • pre conceptions,
  • in-consistency,
  • mis apprehension,
  • in validities,
  • un truth,
  • in-validity,
  • un-truth,
  • pre conception,
  • mis interpretation,
  • un truths,
  • mis calculations,
  • non sequiturs,
  • mis takes,
  • in exactnesses,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • in consistency,
  • mis interpretations,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis calculation,
  • pre-conception,
  • mis take,
  • mis-calculations,
  • in validity,
  • misconstruals,
  • quibblings,
  • in-validities,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • mis-take,
  • mis-takes,
  • in-exactness,
  • in consistencies,
  • in exactness,
  • mis-calculation,
  • faultinesses.
  •paradox (noun)
  • catch22's,
  • non senses,
  • catch-22's,
  • non-sense,
  • catch 22's,
  • non-senses,
  • re-verse,
  • re verse,
  • catch22,
  • catch 22,
  • non sense.
  •pun (noun)
  • Calembour,
  • PUNS,
  • paronomasia.
  •sophistry (noun)
  • paralogies,
  • paralogisms.
  •uncertainty (noun)
  • inconclusiveness,
  • Uncertainties,
  • unpredictabilities,
  • Questionableness,
  • unpredictability.
  •uncertainty of meaning (noun)
  • Equivocacy,
  • polysemousness,
  • anagram.
  •unclearness (noun)
  • un-clearnesses,
  • un-clearness,
  • un clearnesses,
  • un clearness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • preoccupation,
  • delirium,
  • Two-edged,
  • wooly,
  • abstruse,
  • mixed message,
  • ambiguous,
  • vague,
  • bewilderment,
  • meaningless,
  • perplexity,
  • equivocal,
  • cryptic,
  • puzzlement,
  • fog,
  • null,
  • culture shock,
  • double-edged,
  • weasel word.
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  • euphemism,
  • prevarication,
  • obscureness,
  • tergiversation,
  • abstraction,
  • vaguely,
  • oracular.
  •circumlocution
  • periphrasis.
  •sarcasm
  • irony.

Paraphrases for Ambiguity:

• Reverse Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    equivocation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    doublespeak, duplicity, insecurity, misconception, ambigua, interpretation, hesitation.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    vagueness, mystery.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    uncertainty, ambivalence, confusion, obscurity, misunderstanding, clarity, doubt, vagueness, misapprehension, Blurring, opacity, inaccuracy, mystery, mystique.

Antonyms for Ambiguity:

• n.

  • ambiguity
    clarity.
  • uncertainty of meaning
    explicitness, lucidity.
  • Other antonyms:
    incisiveness, surety, Self-evidence, brightness, Lucidness, unambiguity, comprehensibility, clearness, plainness, certainty, readableness, openness, definiteness, tangibleness, distinctness, readability, straightforwardness, tangibility, perspicuousness, palpability, unequivocalness, incision, directness, visibility, exactness, legibility, intelligibility, obviousness, forthrightness, perspicuity.

Ambiguity Sentence Examples:

• Notwithstanding the ambiguity of its victory, the Crozier has won.

• He searched her face, like one suspecting a studied ambiguity.

Homophones for Ambiguity:

• anapaest, anapsid, ambuscade, amphioxidae, anapsida, anapest.

Hypernym for Ambiguity:

• n.

  • communication
    amphibology, parisology, double entendre, loophole, amphiboly.

Hyponym for Ambiguity:

• n.

  • communication
    locution, saying, expression.