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equivocation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of equivocation

1 deliberate evasion in speech
  • His answers were filled with equivocation.
Synonyms of equivocation

circumlocution, shuffle
Words Related to equivocation

quibbling

ambiguity, ambiguousness, equivocalness, murkiness, nebulousness, obscureness, obscurity, opacity
Near Antonyms of equivocation

candor, directness, forthrightness, frankness, openheartedness, openness, plainness, plumpness, straightforwardness
2 the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning
  • the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"
Synonyms of equivocation

ambiguity, ambiguousness, darkness, equivocalness, inscrutability, inscrutableness, murkiness, mysteriousness, nebulosity, nebulousness, obliqueness, obscurity, opacity, opaqueness
Words Related to equivocation

mystery, reconditeness

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

impenetrability, incomprehensibility, incomprehensibleness

deepness, depth, profoundness
Near Antonyms of equivocation

comprehensibility, intelligibility, legibility

brightness, distinctness, self-evidence

certainty, surety

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

directness, forthrightness, straightforwardness
Antonyms of equivocation

clarity, clearness, obviousness, plainness

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