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单词 ambiguity
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This is caused partly by insecurity but also by an ambiguity about the compromises required to win.Lily was in fact becoming more and more aware of a certain ambiguity in her situation. Moral ambiguity hovers over its use of these disclosure facilities.There is no ambiguity about the wider cause.Many political solutions are rife with moral ambiguity.There is no ambiguity about his desire to remake capitalism.Some uncertainty and ambiguity is accepted.There was no ambiguity about it.Many will attack the Durban deal for its ambiguities and the vagueness of the legal framework.So much for the good news - now for the uncertainty and ambiguity.Senior managers have to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity, capricious colleagues and demanding shareholders.Yet he has woven a quietly absorbing gangland tale, full of moral ambiguities.We live in a world of moral ambiguities: we seek certainties where we can.But I must own up to a certain ambiguity yesterday.SOCIAL workers deal with vulnerable people in situations of ambiguity, uncertainty and risk.Company - To avoid any ambiguity in which part of our operation we are concerned with this should be defined first.There is also a certain ambiguity in the reactions (there is at any time more than one chemical process going on up there).

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ambiguity

British English: ambiguity NOUN
If you say that there is ambiguity in something, you mean that it is unclear or confusing, or it can be understood in more than one way.
There is considerable ambiguity about what this part of the agreement actually means.
  • American English: ambiguity
  • Brazilian Portuguese: ambiguidade
  • Chinese: 模棱两可
  • European Spanish: ambigüedad
  • French: ambiguïté
  • German: Unklarheit
  • Italian: ambiguità
  • Japanese: あいまいさ
  • Korean: 애매함
  • European Portuguese: ambiguidade
  • Latin American Spanish: ambigüedad

(noun) 
Definition
the possibility of interpreting an expression in more than one way
the ambiguities of language
Synonyms
vagueness
the vagueness of the language used in the text
doubt
There is some doubt whether it will be any more effective.
puzzle
uncertainty
There is genuine uncertainty about the party's future plans.
obscurity
Hunt was irritated by the obscurity of his reply.
enigma
equivocation
Why don't you just say what you think without equivocation?
inconclusiveness
indefiniteness
dubiety
dubiousness
tergiversation
indeterminateness
equivocality
doubtfulness
equivocacy

Additional synonyms

in the sense of doubt
Definition
an unresolved difficulty or point
There is some doubt whether it will be any more effective.
Synonyms
difficulty,
problem,
confusion,
dilemma,
ambiguity (informal),
quandary,
perplexity
in the sense of dubiety
Synonyms
doubtfulness,
doubt,
uncertainty,
scepticism,
mistrust,
misgiving,
qualm,
indecision,
incertitude,
dubiosity
in the sense of equivocation
Why don't you just say what you think without equivocation?
Synonyms
ambiguity,
evasion,
hedging,
waffle (informal, British),
shuffling,
quibbling,
prevarication,
weasel words (informal, US),
double talk,
tergiversation,
doubtfulness

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