Ambiguity

Noun

 * 1)  Something liable to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
 * His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.
 * 1)  The state of being ambiguous.

Synonyms

 * ambiguousness, imprecision

Antonyms

 * unambiguity

Adjectives for Ambiguity
unfortunate; verbal; apparent; subtle; disturbing; deliberate; undesirable.

Verbs for Ambiguity
admit-; brush away-; burden by-; clear away-; cling to-; develop-; disentangle-; dissolve-; distinguish-; express-; obscure with-; oppress with-; reduce-; remove-; -clouds; -deludes; -occurs; -puzzles; -vanishes.

Related terms

 * ambiguous

Thesaurus
Janus; ambivalence; amphibologism; amphibology; amphiboly; antinomy; asymmetry; biformity; bifurcation; cavil; conjugation; counterword; dichotomy; disproportion; disproportionateness; dodge; double entendre; double meaning; double-talk; doubleness; doublethink; doubling; dualism; duality; duplexity; duplication; duplicity; equivocacy; equivocal; equivocality; equivocalness; equivocation; equivoque; evasion; haggling; hair-splitting; halving; hedge; heresy; heterodoxy; heterogeneity; impenetrability; imprecision; inapprehensibility; inarticulateness; incognizability; incoherence; incommensurability; incompatibility; incomprehensibility; inconclusiveness; incongruity; inconsistency; inconsonance; indefiniteness; indistinctness; inscrutability; irony; irreconcilability; nonconformability; nonconformity; numinousness; obscurity; oxymoron; pairing; paradox; polarity; polysemant; polysemousness; portmanteau word; pun; quibbling; ramblingness; self-contradiction; shift; squinting construction; subterfuge; tergiversation; twinning; two-facedness; twoness; uncertainty; unconformability; unconformity; unconnectedness; unfathomableness; unintelligibility; unknowability; unorthodoxy; unsearchableness; vagueness; weasel word