单词 | ambiguousness |
释义 | ambiguousnessn. The fact or quality of being ambiguous; capacity for being interpreted in more than one way; ambiguity. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1542 |
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