Definition for Equivocation:

• The act of equivocating.

Synonyms for Equivocation:

• n.

  •
  • shuffle,
  • weasel word,
  • ambiguity,
  • waffle,
  • hedge,
  • clear,
  • euphemism,
  • Equivoque.
  •
  • equivocality.
  •avoidance (noun)
  • evasiveness.
  •avoidance of an issue (noun)
  • misrepresentation,
  • equivocality,
  • prevarication,
  • hedging,
  • quibbling routine,
  • ambiguity,
  • deception,
  • delusion,
  • stonewall,
  • deceit,
  • song and dance,
  • run-around,
  • coloring,
  • line,
  • lie,
  • spuriousness,
  • shuffling,
  • doubtfulness,
  • deceptiveness,
  • tergiversation,
  • stall,
  • fib,
  • duplicity,
  • double meaning,
  • evasion,
  • speciousness,
  • fibbing,
  • cop out,
  • casuistry,
  • song,
  • dissimulation,
  • fallacy,
  • distortion,
  • sophistry,
  • con,
  • amphibology,
  • lying,
  • waffle,
  • cover.
  •communication (noun)
  • evasion.
  •deception (noun)
  • prevarication,
  • dissimulation.
  •equivocation (noun)
  • prevarication,
  • evasiveness,
  • evasion,
  • tergiversation.
  •falsehood (noun)
  • perjury,
  • misstatement,
  • fallaciousness,
  • cover up.
  •quibble (noun)
  • quiddity,
  • quibble.

• v.

  •doubt (verb)
  • hesitation.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • weasel word,
  • Equivoque,
  • equivocality,
  • fallacy,
  • deception,
  • trick.
  •
  • euphemism.
  •
  • ambiguity.
  •
  • hedge.
  •
  • shuffle.
  •evasion
  • quibble,
  • evasion.
  •sarcasm
  • irony.
  •Other relevant words:
  • really,
  • circumlocution,
  • indefiniteness,
  • Captiousness,
  • evasion,
  • crookedness,
  • hedging,
  • pussyfooting,
  • wavering,
  • mendacity,
  • apostasy,
  • perversion,
  • chicanery,
  • subtlety,
  • song and dance,
  • misapplication,
  • opaqueness,
  • impenetrability,
  • misstatement,
  • deceptiveness,
  • truly,
  • false swearing,
  • imprecision,
  • deception,
  • troth,
  • dodge,
  • straining,
  • shuffle,
  • insincerity,
  • Equivoque,
  • double-speak,
  • fiction,
  • prevention,
  • duck,
  • delusion,
  • quibble,
  • Paralogy,
  • sophistry,
  • noninvolvement,
  • quibbling routine,
  • fraud,
  • con,
  • shifting,
  • nonpayment,
  • suggestio falsi,
  • equivocalness,
  • Ambiguousness,
  • pun,
  • rationalization,
  • uncertainty,
  • bona fide,
  • caviling,
  • cover,
  • forestalling,
  • density,
  • darkness,
  • obscurity,
  • reconditeness,
  • forbearance,
  • line,
  • colouring,
  • mental reservation,
  • cunning,
  • simulation,
  • lying,
  • white lie,
  • defense mechanism,
  • sidestepping,
  • subterfuge,
  • doublespeak,
  • misrepresentation,
  • exaggeration,
  • unclearness,
  • fib,
  • inscrutability,
  • caginess,
  • shuffling,
  • shunning,
  • deceit,
  • nonintervention,
  • indirectness,
  • weasel words,
  • dissimulation,
  • doubtfulness,
  • vicious circle,
  • quiddity,
  • underhandedness,
  • getting around,
  • Refraining,
  • imitation,
  • fluctuation,
  • nitpicking,
  • obliqueness,
  • duplicity,
  • obscurantism,
  • excuse,
  • hairsplitting,
  • ambivalence,
  • nebulousness,
  • Boggling,
  • waffle,
  • weasel word,
  • artifice,
  • distortion,
  • trick,
  • coloring,
  • murkiness,
  • plausibility,
  • hair-splitting,
  • gobbledegook,
  • vagueness,
  • clear,
  • elusiveness,
  • song,
  • circumvention,
  • hesitation,
  • shift,
  • double-entendre,
  • sidestep,
  • opacity,
  • amphibology,
  • fallaciousness,
  • portmanteau word,
  • counterword,
  • quibbling,
  • Parrying,
  • in truth,
  • concealment,
  • quirk,
  • fencing,
  • dodging,
  • neutrality,
  • vacillation,
  • unfeignedly,
  • fibbing,
  • paradox,
  • terminological inexactitude,
  • suppressio veri,
  • perjury,
  • jesuitry,
  • confabulation,
  • sophistication,
  • falsifying,
  • zigzag,
  • irresolution,
  • shy,
  • wobbling,
  • evasive action,
  • forestallment,
  • nonsense,
  • mystification,
  • Speciosity,
  • Shilly-shally,
  • avoidance,
  • jesuitism,
  • Sidetracking,
  • cop out,
  • cover up,
  • oscillation,
  • affirmation,
  • euphemism,
  • paltering,
  • sophism,
  • inconclusiveness,
  • polysemant,
  • Philosophism,
  • stonewall,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • fallacy,
  • slip,
  • fabrication,
  • slipperiness,
  • trickery,
  • double,
  • Jink,
  • Pettifoggery,
  • circularity,
  • irony,
  • special pleading,
  • bickering,
  • spuriousness,
  • falsification,
  • double-talk,
  • lie,
  • Mysteriousness,
  • analogy,
  • speciousness,
  • Fudging,
  • equivocality,
  • Blague,
  • runaround,
  • Antinomy,
  • escape,
  • unintelligibility,
  • ambiguity,
  • Nebulosity,
  • abstruseness,
  • chicane,
  • reservation,
  • stall,
  • double meaning,
  • dissembling,
  • of a truth,
  • obfuscation,
  • Self-contradiction,
  • oxymoron,
  • run-around,
  • word sense,
  • plausibleness,
  • casuistry,
  • untruthfulness,
  • miscoloring,
  • equivocal,
  • to and fro,
  • nit-picking,
  • falsehood,
  • obliquity,
  • misconstruction,
  • construction,
  • disingenuousness,
  • cavil,
  • hedge,
  • Inscrutableness,
  • elusion.

Antonyms for Equivocation:

• n.

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

• Other antonyms:

  • n. t.
    directness.