Synonyms for Equivocation:

• n.

  •
  • clear,
  • waffle,
  • shuffle,
  • hedge.
  •ambiguity (noun)
  • in certitude,
  • un-certainties,
  • doubleentendre,
  • un-certainty,
  • indeterminatenesses,
  • in-conclusiveness,
  • un certainties,
  • inconclusivenesses,
  • double-entendres,
  • in-determinateness,
  • in-definitenesses,
  • in-determinatenesses,
  • in-definiteness,
  • un clearnesses,
  • un clearness,
  • un certainty,
  • in-certitude,
  • doubleentendres,
  • in definitenesses,
  • un-clearnesses,
  • in-certitudes,
  • in definiteness,
  • in certitudes,
  • in determinateness,
  • double meanings,
  • in-conclusivenesses,
  • equivocacies,
  • un-clearness,
  • in conclusiveness,
  • in determinatenesses,
  • polysemousnesses,
  • in conclusivenesses,
  • polysemies.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • evasiveness.
  •avoidance of an issue (noun)
  • deceit,
  • con,
  • stonewall,
  • double talk,
  • run-around,
  • cover-up,
  • delusion,
  • fibbing,
  • dissimulation,
  • coloring,
  • hedging,
  • cop out,
  • cover,
  • distortion,
  • tergiversation,
  • shuffling,
  • song and dance,
  • lying,
  • stall,
  • quibbling routine,
  • amphibology,
  • misrepresentation,
  • sophistry,
  • duplicity,
  • prevarication,
  • doubtfulness,
  • line,
  • song.
  •casuistry (noun)
  • over-subtlenesses,
  • oversubtlenesses,
  • over-subtleness,
  • over subtlenesses,
  • deceptivenesses,
  • over subtleness.
  •communication (noun)
  • equivocation.
  •deception (noun)
  • dupery,
  • Double dealing,
  • boondoggle,
  • cozenage,
  • beguilement,
  • fraudulence,
  • hypocrisy,
  • boondoggles,
  • fast one,
  • double-dealing,
  • beguilements,
  • Defraudation,
  • hokum,
  • disinformation,
  • cunnings.
  •double-talk (noun)
  • doubletalk.
  •double entendre (noun)
  • amphibiologies.
  •equivocality (noun)
  • ambiguous statements.
  •equivoque (noun)
  • stonewallings.
  •evasion (noun)
  • co-pout,
  • equivocatings,
  • dodgings,
  • pre-text,
  • pre texts,
  • copouts,
  • obliquenesses,
  • fancy footworks,
  • co pout,
  • shirkings,
  • cop outs,
  • evadings,
  • fugivities,
  • pre text,
  • fugivitenesses,
  • eschewals,
  • pre-texts,
  • shunnings,
  • co pouts,
  • fudgings,
  • co-pouts.
  •fallacy (noun)
  • in-consistencies,
  • mis takes,
  • mis calculations,
  • inexactnesses,
  • faultinesses,
  • misconstruals,
  • pre-conceptions,
  • pre conceptions,
  • pre-conception,
  • mis interpretations,
  • in consistencies,
  • in-consistency,
  • mis-apprehension,
  • mis-calculation,
  • in exactnesses,
  • in validity,
  • pre conception,
  • mis take,
  • mis apprehensions,
  • mis-interpretations,
  • mis-apprehensions,
  • mis-take,
  • mis-calculations,
  • mis-interpretation,
  • in-exactnesses,
  • mis calculation,
  • mis apprehension,
  • non sequiturs,
  • in-validity,
  • in-exactness,
  • in validities,
  • quibblings,
  • in exactness,
  • in-validities,
  • mis interpretation,
  • mis-takes,
  • in consistency.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • fallaciousness,
  • falseness,
  • feigning,
  • fakery,
  • hogwash,
  • fable,
  • figment,
  • fibbery,
  • half truths,
  • cover up,
  • mis-statement,
  • perjury,
  • coverup,
  • misstatement,
  • Untruism,
  • half truth.
  •fib (noun)
  • mis-representations,
  • mis-representation,
  • spinaches,
  • mis representation,
  • mis representations.
  •hesitation (noun)
  • de-lay,
  • hemming hawings,
  • mis-giving,
  • in-disposition,
  • in decision,
  • in decisions,
  • falterings,
  • mis giving,
  • in-dispositions,
  • in dispositions,
  • de lays,
  • de-laying,
  • in-decision,
  • un willingnesses,
  • dawdlings,
  • in-decisions,
  • de laying,
  • mis-trust,
  • in disposition,
  • mis trusts,
  • un-willingness,
  • mis trust,
  • de-lays,
  • un willingness,
  • hemming hawing,
  • de lay,
  • demurrals,
  • un-willingnesses,
  • hemming and hawings,
  • delayings.
  •indecisiveness (noun)
  • in-decisiveness,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • shilly shally,
  • in decisiveness,
  • in decisivenesses.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • hemming and hawing,
  • oversubtleness,
  • fugiviteness,
  • invalidities,
  • jazz,
  • faultiness,
  • fib,
  • tentativeness,
  • Equivoque,
  • Ambiguousness,
  • spinach,
  • demurral,
  • shift,
  • imprecision,
  • double-entendre,
  • timidness,
  • double meaning,
  • expediency,
  • inconclusiveness,
  • indecisiveness,
  • equivocalness,
  • fancy footwork,
  • ambiguity,
  • shufflings,
  • Equivocacy,
  • eschewal,
  • spuriousness,
  • cop-out,
  • indeterminateness,
  • copout,
  • shillyshally,
  • fumblings,
  • ambiguous statement,
  • elusion,
  • evasion,
  • Uncertainties,
  • jives,
  • elusions,
  • non sequitur,
  • imprecisions,
  • misconstrual,
  • double entendre,
  • jive,
  • procrastination,
  • casuistry,
  • PUNS,
  • to-and-fro,
  • irresoluteness,
  • obliqueness,
  • fumbling,
  • fallacy,
  • quirk,
  • equivocality,
  • inexactness,
  • invalidity,
  • speciousness,
  • procrastinations,
  • waverings,
  • cop-outs,
  • irresolution,
  • deception,
  • polysemousness,
  • stumblings,
  • falsehood,
  • deceptiveness,
  • Amphibiology,
  • hesitation,
  • fugivity,
  • double-talk,
  • stumbling,
  • polysemy,
  • scruple,
  • trick,
  • runaround,
  • obscureness.
  •quibble (noun)
  • hair-splitter,
  • nit-picker,
  • hairsplitters,
  • Quiddities,
  • niggle,
  • Hairsplitter.
  •shift (noun)
  • re courses,
  • re-sort,
  • re-course,
  • re source,
  • re-courses,
  • re-sorts,
  • re course,
  • re-source,
  • re-sources,
  • re sources.
  •trick (noun)
  • de coys,
  • dis-guise,
  • de-coy,
  • de-coys,
  • de coy,
  • dis-guises,
  • dis guise,
  • dis guises.

• v.

  •Other relevant words: (verb)
  • lie.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • weasel word,
  • pretense.
  •
  • euphemism.
  •evasion
  • quibble.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • disingenuousness,
  • plausibility,
  • defense mechanism,
  • artifice,
  • paltering,
  • shifting,
  • straining,
  • evasive action,
  • apostasy,
  • unintelligibility,
  • duck,
  • mental reservation,
  • mendacity,
  • nonpayment,
  • obliquity,
  • uncertainty,
  • imitation,
  • vacillation,
  • abstruseness,
  • white lie,
  • falsification,
  • gobbledegook,
  • perversion,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • circumlocution,
  • unclearness,
  • untruthfulness,
  • quiddity,
  • caviling,
  • in truth,
  • shy,
  • crookedness,
  • circularity,
  • Jink,
  • circumvention,
  • elusiveness,
  • hairsplitting,
  • nebulousness,
  • colouring,
  • in sooth,
  • insincerity,
  • reconditeness,
  • to and fro,
  • chicanery,
  • Nebulosity,
  • concealment,
  • Mysteriousness,
  • ambivalence,
  • Blague,
  • vicious circle,
  • Fudging,
  • nonintervention,
  • getting around,
  • quibbling,
  • sidestep,
  • jesuitry,
  • obscurantism,
  • murkiness,
  • confabulation,
  • sophistication,
  • darkness,
  • indirectness,
  • oscillation,
  • affirmation,
  • reservation,
  • Antinomy,
  • really,
  • double,
  • troth,
  • impenetrability,
  • dodging,
  • Paralogy,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • Inscrutableness,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • fiction,
  • in good earnest,
  • density,
  • opacity,
  • trickery,
  • miscoloring,
  • slipperiness,
  • special pleading,
  • noninvolvement,
  • fencing,
  • cunning,
  • misapplication,
  • pussyfooting,
  • Sidetracking,
  • dodge,
  • unfeignedly,
  • paradox,
  • rationalization,
  • fraud,
  • irony,
  • neutrality,
  • oxymoron,
  • false swearing,
  • amphibologism,
  • equivocal,
  • Speciosity,
  • obscurity,
  • forestallment,
  • portmanteau word,
  • doublespeak,
  • underhandedness,
  • caginess,
  • sidestepping,
  • dissembling,
  • exaggeration,
  • mystification,
  • pun,
  • fabrication,
  • simulation,
  • truly,
  • bickering,
  • opaqueness,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • avoiding reaction,
  • plausibleness,
  • wobbling,
  • Boggling,
  • prevention,
  • vagueness,
  • hair-splitting,
  • avoidance,
  • Refraining,
  • jesuitism,
  • Parrying,
  • polysemant,
  • counterword,
  • forestalling,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • nonsense,
  • indefiniteness,
  • falsifying,
  • weasel words,
  • inscrutability,
  • cavil,
  • Philosophism,
  • construction,
  • excuse,
  • obfuscation,
  • misconstruction,
  • chicane,
  • wavering,
  • subterfuge,
  • subtlety,
  • nitpicking,
  • shunning,
  • of a truth,
  • suppressio veri,
  • forbearance,
  • double-speak,
  • zigzag,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • escape,
  • word sense,
  • slip,
  • nit-picking,
  • fluctuation,
  • bona fide,
  • Captiousness,
  • sophism,
  • apparent soundness,
  • analogy.

Paraphrases for Equivocation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    prevarication.

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ambiguity.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hesitation, confusion, misunderstanding, mistake, doubt, procrastination.

Antonyms for Equivocation:

• n.

  • avoidance of an issue
    facing, reality, clarity, directness, certainty, frankness, meeting, truth, fact, uprightness, truthfulness, openness, honesty, surety, trustworthiness.
  • Other antonyms:
    definiteness, forthrightness, straightforwardness, comprehensibility, exactness, intelligibility, candor, Lucidness, perspicuousness, brightness, clearness, readability, legibility, plumpness, openheartedness, perspicuity, incision, Self-evidence, distinctness, incisiveness, obviousness, readableness, tangibleness, explicitness, plainness, visibility, lucidity, tangibility, palpability.

Homophones for Equivocation:

• exposition, expectation.

Hypernym for Equivocation:

• n.

  • communication
    circumlocution, quibble, doublespeak, hedge, cavil, quiddity, hedging, indirect expression.

Hyponym for Equivocation:

• n.

  • communication
    deceit, deception, misrepresentation.