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单词 ambiguousness
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ambiguousnessn.

Brit. /amˈbɪɡjʊəsnəs/, U.S. /æmˈbɪɡjəwəsnəs/
Forms: see ambiguous adj. and -ness suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ambiguous adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < ambiguous adj. + -ness suffix. Compare earlier ambiguity n.
The fact or quality of being ambiguous; capacity for being interpreted in more than one way; ambiguity.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > equivocal quality, ambiguity > [noun]
ambiguitya1325
doublenessa1513
ambiguousness1542
double meaning1551
indifferency1596
equivocacy1646
equivocalness1647
ambilogy1656
greyness1663
mealy-mouthedness1697
amphilogy1731
equivocality1735
grey1822
double-edgedness1901
ambivalence1912
ambivalency1912
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 332v A merie woorde dependyng of ambiguousnesse of the vocable.
1679 Animadversions Speeches Jesuits 2 Mental equivocation, not on the account of ambiguousness in the words..but because of a double sense in some Proposition.
1771 J. Shebbeare Authentic Narr. Oppress. Islanders Jersey II. vi. 322 The colonel's ideas were..completely enveloped in ambiguousness and obscurity.
1839 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe III. ii. 76 Close reasoning, which..yields to no ambiguousness of language.
1911 C. Klein Maggie Pepper xxiii. 296 When, finally, she made answer, it was with more than a hint of ambiguousness.
1978 R. C. Vitzthum Land & Sea v. 128 The ambiguousness of his feelings is subtly underlined in stanza 5.
2006 Church Times 28 July 17/5 The ambiguousness of the creator God's way of dealing with evil.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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