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EQUIVOCALNESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does equivocalness mean?

• EQUIVOCALNESS (noun)
The noun EQUIVOCALNESS has 1 sense:

1. unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

Familiarity information: EQUIVOCALNESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• EQUIVOCALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

equivocalness; ambiguity

Hypernyms ("equivocalness" is a kind of...):

unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "equivocalness"):

equivocation; evasiveness; prevarication (intentionally vague or ambiguous)

lexical ambiguity; polysemy (the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings)

no man's land; twilight zone (the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both))

Antonym:

unequivocalness (clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity)

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