What is another word for ambiguity?
Pronunciation:
[ ˌambɪɡjˈuːɪti], [ ˌambɪɡjˈuːɪti], [ ˌa_m_b_ɪ_ɡ_j_ˈuː_ɪ_t_i]
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Similar words for ambiguity:
- Jekyll and Hyde (noun)
- ambiguity (noun)
- cloudiness (noun)
- communication (noun)
- deception (noun)
- double entendre (noun)
- doubt (noun)
- doubtfulness (noun)
- dual personality (noun)
- equivocation (noun)
- fallacy (noun)
- indefiniteness (noun)
- obscurity (noun)
- other relevant words (noun)
- paradox (noun)
- pun (noun)
- sophistry (noun)
- uncertainty (noun)
- unclearness (noun)
- other relevant words (verb)
- other synonyms
- circumlocution
- other relevant words
- other relevant words (noun)
Synonyms for Ambiguity:
n.
• Jekyll and Hyde (noun)-
•
- hollow,
- ill-defined,
- clear.
- 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.
- nonsense,
- imprecisions,
- pun,
- Amphibiology,
- elusion,
- fallacy,
- speciousness,
- Equivoque,
- faultiness,
- nebulousness,
- double entendre,
- muddiness,
- Paralogy,
- equivocation,
- misconstrual,
- double life,
- imprecision,
- inexactness,
- paradox,
- vagueness,
- spuriousness,
- indefiniteness,
- cloudiness,
- invalidities,
- proteus,
- opaqueness,
- doubt,
- elusions,
- double meaning,
- unclearness,
- double-entendre,
- invalidity,
- paralogism,
- uncertainty,
- non sequitur,
- Ambiguousness,
- equivocality,
- obscurity.
- catch22's,
- non senses,
- catch-22's,
- non-sense,
- catch 22's,
- non-senses,
- re-verse,
- re verse,
- catch22,
- catch 22,
- non sense.
- PUNS.
v.
• Other relevant words: (verb)Other synonyms:
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•
- preoccupation,
- delirium,
- Two-edged,
- wooly,
- abstruse,
- mixed message,
- ambiguous,
- vague,
- bewilderment,
- meaningless,
- perplexity,
- equivocal,
- cryptic,
- puzzlement,
- fog,
- null,
- culture shock,
- double-edged,
- weasel word.
- shadow,
- godforsaken,
- delivery,
- nil,
- fuddle,
- branched,
- find,
- grim,
- look,
- flocculent,
- foregather,
- exhaust,
- lead off,
- inquiry,
- dismal,
- deeply,
- bemused,
- drab,
- clutter,
- tear,
- emaciate,
- reposition,
- wastefulness,
- first,
- heavy,
- flap,
- undecided,
- mazy,
- addiction,
- head start,
- visualise,
- come out,
- foreland,
- preoccupancy,
- straits,
- reluctance,
- pop,
- duskiness,
- disoriented,
- pull in,
- obliterate,
- renounce,
- pass out,
- lay off,
- intangible asset,
- nous,
- bleary,
- put off,
- mist,
- response time,
- go,
- pervade,
- attend,
- fill,
- bunk,
- percipient,
- brain-teaser,
- blind,
- anagrammatise,
- denseness,
- channelize,
- snakelike,
- rhythm,
- goose egg,
- asynclitism,
- bug out,
- pervert,
- switch,
- frill,
- assoil,
- blue,
- mistake,
- tangle,
- witness,
- duck,
- go out,
- vacuous,
- bulge,
- obviate,
- jumble,
- contradiction in terms,
- light up,
- card,
- daze,
- palpitation,
- exponentiation,
- authorize,
- beat up,
- unimportance,
- overcast,
- exculpated,
- slur,
- dour,
- go away,
- carve up,
- sidestep,
- get together,
- fabrication,
- fulfill,
- all the way,
- headway,
- circumlocution,
- excavate,
- unarticulate,
- misapprehension,
- tick,
- disconsolate,
- hazy,
- jump,
- concentrated,
- take on,
- woolly-headed,
- envision,
- morose,
- deceptiveness,
- part,
- amaze,
- clean,
- forked,
- fit,
- geological fault,
- heterogeneousness,
- gyrus,
- dubitable,
- assure,
- pull up stakes,
- neutralise,
- aspect,
- voice communication,
- determine,
- precariousness,
- grecian,
- teddy,
- love child,
- doctrine of analogy,
- futile,
- realise,
- intriguing,
- falderol,
- pop out,
- drear,
- hole,
- confutable,
- hiding,
- waste matter,
- mutual opposition,
- umbrageous,
- fork-like,
- transformation,
- switching,
- arduous,
- overcloud,
- aberrant,
- night,
- distribute,
- discover,
- folderal,
- repugnance,
- escort,
- flummox,
- straggle,
- scourge,
- construe,
- leave,
- fatuousness,
- thought-provoking,
- headspring,
- upset,
- in question,
- foreign,
- secretiveness,
- embark on,
- severely,
- bedim,
- trounce,
- understand,
- quiddity,
- crystallise,
- dislodge,
- forficate,
- escape,
- fragmented,
- tilt,
- realize,
- work shift,
- dissipation,
- exculpate,
- gruelling,
- abstract entity,
- haggle,
- bushed,
- discharge,
- portmanteau,
- mistily,
- screen,
- fainthearted,
- scuffle,
- interrogate,
- ward off,
- mixed-up,
- changeful,
- lightheaded,
- junction,
- fault,
- glowering,
- drum,
- compactness,
- long-winded,
- apprehension,
- penetrate,
- wooly-haired,
- interrogative sentence,
- receive,
- ticktock,
- contrivance,
- sloppiness,
- holler,
- pass,
- cryptical,
- hokum,
- outset,
- zip,
- nonconformance,
- purplish,
- impenetrableness,
- mental rejection,
- trench,
- shot,
- parry,
- starting signal,
- circumvent,
- get word,
- circularize,
- learning ability,
- fend off,
- incoherency,
- figure,
- disconnected,
- pettifog,
- set about,
- suffer,
- shaking,
- imperial,
- building complex,
- begin,
- suspect,
- fix,
- starting line,
- outfox,
- neutralize,
- check,
- play,
- witticism,
- wag,
- mix,
- discord,
- whirl,
- examine,
- sour,
- protrude,
- jocularity,
- engrossment,
- open,
- faint-hearted,
- whodunit,
- take issue,
- hardly,
- visualize,
- tucker,
- bulge out,
- language,
- mental confusion,
- mysterious,
- block,
- engagement,
- intricacy,
- forgather,
- hellenic,
- misinterpretation,
- wild,
- light-headed,
- prongy,
- subdued,
- confutative,
- railroad siding,
- discombobulation,
- interpenetrate,
- transmutation,
- tucker out,
- unaccessible,
- absorption,
- step down,
- chicane,
- hysteria,
- moody,
- consider,
- interpolate,
- swirl,
- careen,
- aught,
- unsealed,
- obfuscation,
- pound,
- unprocurable,
- run off,
- jointure,
- get wind,
- waste product,
- secret,
- brain,
- wittiness,
- swarthiness,
- mazed,
- trembling,
- heartbeat,
- go steady,
- inexplicable,
- shell,
- humor,
- elaborateness,
- castrate,
- offset,
- unavailing,
- sinister,
- bewildered,
- outlawed,
- dumb,
- eventuality,
- disjointed,
- wash up,
- fitting,
- gloomy,
- picture,
- job,
- difficult,
- purpurate,
- acquit,
- vindicated,
- visit,
- tortuous,
- mutual exclusiveness,
- disunite,
- divagate,
- indecisiveness,
- biparous,
- craze,
- stick,
- glum,
- sports meeting,
- budge,
- fraction,
- majestic,
- sorry,
- apart,
- see to it,
- vibration,
- avert,
- lay waste to,
- stupefy,
- baffled,
- all in,
- imbue,
- untouchable,
- take in,
- crush,
- bafflement,
- direct,
- displacement,
- call into question,
- nighttime,
- perplexing,
- core out,
- head up,
- nix,
- knock off,
- carp,
- dig,
- start up,
- conjunction,
- indisposition,
- ridiculousness,
- purpleness,
- conscience,
- stratagem,
- authorise,
- reflection,
- naught,
- double-dealing,
- cease,
- get a line,
- cadence,
- metre,
- headland,
- abstractedness,
- skepticism,
- consume,
- foggy,
- slip,
- take off,
- defectiveness,
- hollow out,
- break up,
- blurry,
- imperviousness,
- otiose,
- assemble,
- generalization,
- mess,
- hidden,
- rich,
- dependance,
- promontory,
- interpret,
- pass around,
- get-go,
- duplicate,
- drumhead,
- hide,
- set off,
- transcendental philosophy,
- header,
- shifting,
- quivering,
- get down,
- dissever,
- swooning,
- lecture,
- covert,
- unconnected,
- confusedness,
- heavily,
- siding,
- abstrusity,
- showtime,
- kettle of fish,
- gravel,
- bleak,
- disaccord,
- dimmed,
- whoreson,
- brainpower,
- privacy,
- gather,
- degenerate,
- mistrust,
- ineffectual,
- empurpled,
- guide,
- motion,
- unlawful,
- set out,
- conk,
- suspicious,
- spoken communication,
- clearly,
- solve,
- address,
- apostasy,
- tightness,
- dissent,
- regal,
- outwit,
- meretriciousness,
- light,
- shift key,
- outsmart,
- rot,
- run into,
- bring in,
- burst,
- duty period,
- muzzy,
- manifestation,
- shed light on,
- sophistication,
- waver,
- motley,
- nonpayment,
- contingence,
- shadowed,
- humour,
- trick,
- measure,
- macerate,
- sophism,
- point,
- unresolved,
- rotational latency,
- clean-cut,
- amuse,
- addled,
- delphic,
- disinclination,
- tentative,
- give up,
- reckon,
- fudge,
- vortex,
- softness,
- wavering,
- absurdness,
- rent,
- illegitimate child,
- start out,
- straighten out,
- devastate,
- stop,
- clear-cut,
- chief,
- smother,
- mystery story,
- put-on,
- adjoin,
- diffident,
- blend,
- uniting,
- bewilder,
- conform to,
- unclutter,
- school principal,
- impreciseness,
- mental capacity,
- swoon,
- take care,
- mating,
- hellene,
- thump,
- absolved,
- union,
- meter,
- snaky,
- hedge in,
- read/write head,
- circulate,
- shy,
- empty,
- drop by the wayside,
- faintheartedness,
- ascertain,
- pickle,
- incongruousness,
- mentality,
- distort,
- lying,
- cipher,
- rip,
- latent period,
- regard,
- laugh,
- inscrutable,
- enlighten,
- vapourousness,
- foreswear,
- cleave,
- waste material,
- dimness,
- satisfy,
- permissive waste,
- principal,
- commencement,
- feeble,
- niggle,
- murk,
- ambivalency,
- circularise,
- caustic remark,
- starting time,
- labyrinthian,
- qualm,
- disarray,
- snarl,
- phraseology,
- rive,
- violet,
- plight,
- fulfil,
- transfer,
- inexactitude,
- muddled,
- undetectable,
- sarcasm,
- choice of words,
- irresolution,
- spread,
- top dog,
- set forth,
- nonsensical,
- unbelief,
- helpless,
- the purple,
- addle,
- actor's line,
- take up,
- interview,
- debar,
- illuminate,
- dodging,
- mystifying,
- come across,
- lurch,
- mired,
- diction,
- break open,
- sort out,
- jam,
- uncomprehensible,
- syncope,
- preoccupied,
- dead,
- fatuity,
- unknown,
- change over,
- indetermination,
- quiver,
- woolly,
- crystalise,
- trouble,
- zero,
- doomed,
- drop out,
- net,
- leave office,
- well-defined,
- privateness,
- deviant,
- reaction time,
- shamble,
- antic,
- late,
- maneuver,
- bass,
- capriciousness,
- take leave,
- run across,
- relinquish,
- manoeuvre,
- fancy,
- broadcast,
- shambling,
- bicker,
- hive off,
- hesitate,
- insensible,
- mistaking,
- punishing,
- desolate,
- water parting,
- haze over,
- obtuse,
- soft,
- oral communication,
- satire,
- stave off,
- confuse,
- caper,
- zippo,
- ware,
- disordered,
- inconceivability,
- resign,
- sexual union,
- moral sense,
- unclear,
- scramble,
- abstract,
- initiate,
- capitulum,
- beginning,
- wordplay,
- head teacher,
- talking to,
- incredulity,
- thriftlessness,
- dense,
- spread out,
- date,
- enigmatic,
- indeterminacy,
- nonmeaningful,
- laborious,
- neology,
- puddle,
- crystalize,
- disseminate,
- earn,
- confounded,
- turn away,
- beat out,
- black,
- trumpery,
- scheme,
- shimmy,
- royal,
- qabalistic,
- converge,
- intemperate,
- wasteland,
- surd,
- get going,
- hear,
- hedging,
- wave-particle duality,
- coupling,
- colligation,
- kickoff,
- befuddled,
- lead,
- sign,
- difficultness,
- slow,
- mystifier,
- demurrer,
- gag,
- do in,
- split up,
- misconstruction,
- fraudulence,
- sibylline,
- double,
- startle,
- verbal expression,
- sense of right and wrong,
- unvoiced,
- benighted,
- gimcrack,
- stock split,
- fogginess,
- pitch,
- at sea,
- unobtainable,
- bend,
- welter,
- variegate,
- caput,
- view,
- anonymity,
- image,
- dull,
- wander,
- interrogative,
- fuzzy,
- chuck up the sponge,
- squabble,
- grammatical construction,
- agitate,
- sack,
- learn,
- diffused,
- liquidate,
- coordination compound,
- enquiry,
- cover,
- mutable,
- enigmatical,
- habituation,
- head word,
- modify,
- disport,
- get,
- void,
- oral sex,
- concealing,
- indecipherable,
- teaser,
- outlaw,
- deviousness,
- scratch line,
- vacillation,
- punning,
- warp,
- stir,
- empurple,
- construction,
- gain,
- faltering,
- unsung,
- barren,
- ruffle,
- distrustfulness,
- formula,
- chemise,
- concentration,
- dreary,
- suspiciousness,
- insure,
- over-embellished,
- throw in the towel,
- beatnik,
- unmortgaged,
- elude,
- readable,
- project,
- isolated,
- top,
- stray,
- refutable,
- backbreaking,
- fracture,
- wrangling,
- veil,
- languish,
- strong,
- steer,
- eluding,
- change,
- blur,
- involvement,
- pulsate,
- pose,
- manoeuver,
- funny,
- disunited,
- imbalance,
- exonerated,
- labyrinth,
- voiceless,
- incertain,
- go through,
- missed,
- perplex,
- coinage,
- grueling,
- scepticism,
- humbleness,
- demur,
- pine away,
- make,
- ambitious,
- snag,
- profundity,
- propagate,
- false belief,
- turnout,
- nonconformism,
- musical rhythm,
- neuter,
- colony,
- head off,
- tongue-tied,
- starting,
- watch,
- psyche,
- commence,
- originate,
- control,
- scratch,
- round,
- firmly,
- cabalistic,
- sack up,
- thick,
- toilsome,
- wrangle,
- ensure,
- cloud,
- facial expression,
- vex,
- cleared,
- dumbfound,
- blurriness,
- predicament,
- abyssal,
- intemperately,
- prank,
- indefinity,
- unification,
- manner of speaking,
- unusual,
- nonplus,
- unclouded,
- oppugn,
- clear up,
- baffle,
- work over,
- heading,
- brighten,
- brabble,
- pulsation,
- crystallize,
- avoid,
- overreach,
- severe,
- wobble,
- wispy,
- wickedness,
- elaboration,
- ravage,
- interrogation,
- pronged,
- forefront,
- anagrammatize,
- blot out,
- wateriness,
- speech communication,
- silence,
- unsettled,
- locution,
- silliness,
- break,
- garbled,
- watershed,
- chatoyant,
- volatility,
- illogical,
- pulse,
- nothing,
- wording,
- decipherable,
- fall by the wayside,
- woolly-haired,
- biramous,
- wordy,
- words,
- contradictory,
- knotty,
- becloud,
- saturnine,
- pick up,
- kabbalistic,
- convoluted,
- vanquish,
- squander,
- catch,
- cloud cover,
- generalisation,
- hunch,
- experience,
- thrum,
- separate,
- find out,
- zilch,
- reflexion,
- iridescent,
- broken,
- falter,
- by-blow,
- phrasing,
- schism,
- haze,
- clouded,
- enfolding,
- profoundness,
- knockout,
- falsify,
- fury,
- cypher,
- hedgerow,
- meaninglessness,
- face,
- distract,
- shadowy,
- mystify,
- dip,
- insinuation,
- disperse,
- spay,
- lie,
- fan out,
- befuddlement,
- bemusement,
- jape,
- throw in,
- exonerate,
- participation,
- spoken language,
- bastard,
- wooly-minded,
- scattered,
- tedious,
- weak,
- encounter,
- jest,
- abysmal,
- tough,
- oceanic abyss,
- timid,
- discontinue,
- ambage,
- dingy,
- sullen,
- shuffling,
- formulation,
- nada,
- nonphysical,
- gemination,
- hesitancy,
- skirt,
- wonder,
- uncertainness,
- channelise,
- undecipherable,
- fountainhead,
- gimcrackery,
- invalidness,
- blow,
- permeate,
- frenzy,
- nonsensicality,
- touch,
- ticktack,
- befog,
- mare's nest,
- elucidate,
- evade,
- windy,
- composite,
- mind,
- intuition,
- contact,
- unnoticeable.
- illegitimate,
- disbelief,
- heterogeneity,
- deflect,
- contradiction,
- divert,
- paronomasia,
- absurdity,
- dependency,
- open question,
- numinousness,
- indistinct,
- dubious,
- Halving,
- involution,
- evasion,
- Imperspicuity,
- illegal,
- homonym,
- double-talk,
- faint,
- haggling,
- innuendo,
- undefined,
- doublethink,
- unsure,
- duplexity,
- inconclusiveness,
- misgiving,
- disagree,
- haziness,
- ambilogy,
- changeable,
- Mysteriousness,
- quibbling,
- subterfuge,
- neologism,
- onus probandi,
- start,
- indecision,
- irony,
- suspense,
- shift,
- polarity,
- unknowability,
- Nebulosity,
- quibble,
- dependence,
- shakiness,
- Homonymy,
- mystery,
- Unconformity,
- uncertain,
- Unsearchableness,
- misunderstanding,
- Self-contradiction,
- unintelligibility,
- indefinite,
- polysemousness,
- Inscrutableness,
- impenetrability,
- inarticulate,
- Equivocacy,
- Inarticulateness,
- fishy,
- loophole,
- sidetrack,
- divide,
- concealment,
- incongruity,
- obscure,
- asymmetry,
- quandary,
- confounding,
- portmanteau word,
- questionable,
- cavil,
- vary,
- conjugation,
- Doubleness,
- incomprehensibility,
- amphibology,
- pairing,
- dichotomy,
- alter,
- Paragram,
- deviate,
- illicit,
- undetermined,
- obliquity,
- two-facedness,
- faintness,
- darkness,
- conundrum,
- shady,
- Antinomy,
- split,
- bifurcation,
- expression,
- unorthodoxy,
- unintelligibleness,
- blind bargain,
- heresy,
- analogy,
- Inconsonance,
- contingency,
- amphibologism,
- polysemant,
- suspicion,
- depart,
- mix-up,
- indistinctness,
- dodge,
- duality,
- dark,
- Spinosity,
- inconceivableness,
- inscrutability,
- anagram,
- fuzziness,
- latency,
- mystification,
- wit,
- transcendentalism,
- doubling,
- Unfathomableness,
- nonconformity,
- dim,
- oxymoron,
- amphiboly,
- question,
- distrust,
- inconsistency,
- digress,
- obliqueness,
- hair-splitting,
- indeterminate,
- secrecy,
- Irreconcilability,
- bifurcate,
- Biformity,
- Equivoke,
- density,
- duplicity,
- abstruseness,
- incognizability,
- duplication,
- twoness,
- Ambiloquy,
- mistiness,
- dilemma,
- reconditeness,
- opacity,
- problem,
- heterodoxy,
- disproportion,
- diverge,
- riddle,
- counterword,
- twinning,
- unconnectedness,
- differ,
- play on words,
- incompatibility,
- hesitation,
- Incommensurability,
- joke,
- double-speak,
- dualism,
- disproportionateness,
- incoherence,
- doubtful,
- Calembour,
- quit,
- query.
How to use "Ambiguity" in context?
Ambiguity is a word which can be used both positively and negatively. In general, ambiguity can be a beneficial trait because it can allow for different interpretations of a statement or concept. For example, when discussing the weather, it could be interpreted as either the sky being cloudy or the temperature being below average. On the other hand, ambiguity can sometimes be a negative aspect of language because it can lead to misunderstanding or confusion. In legal contexts, ambiguity can be a defense in criminal cases because it allows the accused to argue that they did not know the exact meaning of the law.
Paraphrases for Ambiguity:
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Reverse Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
equivocation.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
doublespeak, duplicity, hesitation, insecurity, interpretation, misconception, ambigua.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
ambivalence, clarity, confusion, doubt, inaccuracy, misapprehension, misunderstanding, mystery, mystique, obscurity, opacity, uncertainty, vagueness, Blurring.
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Noun, singular or mass
Homophones for Ambiguity:
Hypernym for Ambiguity:
n.
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communication
amphibology, parisology, double entendre, loophole, amphiboly.
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communication
Hyponym for Ambiguity:
n.
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communication
locution, saying, expression.
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communication
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