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ambiguity - 11 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
| Synonyms: | anagram, doubt, dubiety, enigma, equivocation, incertitude, obscurity, puzzle, uncertainty, vagueness, double meaning, double-entendre, doubtfulness, dubiousness, equivocacy, equivocality, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, polysemousness, polysemy, tergiversation, unclearness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, clarity, clearness, lucidity, definiteness, explicitness |
| Main Entry: | double entendre |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | play on words |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, equivocation, innuendo, joke, pun, amphibiology, double meaning, equivocality, equivoque, tergiversation |
| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, faithlessness, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering, agnosticism, demurral, dubiousness, faltering, irresolution, lack of confidence, perplexity |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, faith, reliance, trust, dependence |
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, delusion, distortion, double entendre, double talk, duplicity, evasion, fallacy, fib, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, run-around, song*, song and dance*, sophistry, stall, stonewall*, waffle*, amphibology, deceptiveness, dissimulation, double meaning, doubtfulness, equivocality, fibbing, hedging, quibbling routine, shuffling, speciousness, spuriousness, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | facing, meeting, directness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | paradox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, puzzle |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pun |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | play on words |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, conceit, double entendre, joke, quibble, quip, witticism, calembour, double meaning, equivoque, paronomasia |
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, puzzle, qualm, quandary, query, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, vagueness, wonder, worry, doubtfulness, guesswork, inconclusiveness, irresolution, lack of confidence, mystification, perplexity, puzzlement, questionableness, unpredictability |
| Antonyms: | certainty, security, definiteness, sureness |
| Main Entry: | Jekyll and Hyde |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dual personality |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, duplicity, split personality, Proteus, double life, two-facedness |
| Main Entry: | obscurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vagueness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, darkness, uncertainty, dimness, fuzziness, indistinctness, obscureness |
| Main Entry: | vagueness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | unclearness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, obscurity, uncertainty, ambiguousness, cloudiness, equivocalness |
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