Meaning of vagueness in English:
vagueness
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noun
mass noun1Lack of certainty or distinctness.
‘Sue worries about the vagueness of the plans’- ‘their vision for reform has been shrouded in vagueness’
- ‘The Dickenses were to move house twice during the first two years of Charles's life, and the novelist later recalled Portsmouth with considerable vagueness.’
- ‘There were many good memories, but I have a lot of vagueness over the years.’
- ‘More important than her posture of self-martyring altruism was the vagueness of her masochistic grandiosity.’
- ‘The vagueness of the crimes and ties between the characters only adds to the baffling nature of the plot.’
- ‘It was all vagueness, in a hazy holiday benevolence.’
impreciseness, inexactness, lack of precision, ambiguity, woolliness, looseness, unclearness, obscurity, indistinctness, generality, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, haziness, cloudiness, fuzziness, mistiness, lack of definitionView synonyms- 1.1Lack of preciseness in thought or communication.‘the vagueness of terms does nothing to aid understanding’
- ‘there is a certain vagueness in his account that I find troubling’
- ‘His reform strategies tend to be weakened either by vagueness or internal contradiction.’
- ‘Whilst facilitating the adoption of this model by employers, legislative vagueness about the issue subverts the effectiveness of union resistance.’
- ‘The 'story', if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness.’
- ‘The vagueness is what keeps us engaged until the surprise ending.’
- ‘Her extensive understanding of war's horror contrasts with the ridiculous vagueness of her father's telegram announcing Victor's wounding.’
absent-mindedness, forgetfulness, disorganization, dreaminess, inattention, abstraction, wool-gathering, empty-headedness, giddiness, confusion, befuddlementView synonyms
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