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ambiguity

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ambiguity

the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning

The ambiguity of his message left me wondering what to do.

Synonyms of ambiguity

ambiguousness, darkness, equivocalness, equivocation, inscrutability, inscrutableness, murkiness, mysteriousness, nebulosity, nebulousness, obliqueness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness

Words Related to ambiguity

mystery, reconditeness

cloudiness, dimness, faintness, fogginess, fuzziness, haziness, indefiniteness, indistinctness, mistiness, shade, shadow, uncertainty, vagueness

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness

deepness, depth, profoundness

Near Antonyms of ambiguity

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

brightness, distinctness, self-evidence

certainty, surety

definiteness, exactness, explicitness, incision, incisiveness, lucidity, lucidness, perspicuity, perspicuousness

directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness

Antonyms of ambiguity

clarity, clearness, obviousness, plainness

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