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单词 equivocation
释义

equivocation

noun

equiv·​o·​ca·​tion i-ˌkwi-və-ˈkā-shən How to pronounce equivocation (audio)
plural equivocations
: deliberate evasiveness in wording : the use of ambiguous or equivocal language
Like any good teacher, he does his best to answer with clarity and minimal equivocation. Eric Bugyis
Let me say now without equivocation or need for reflection: Devils tower is the most amazing sight of my entire trip. Mel White
: an ambiguous or deliberately evasive statement
His answers were filled with evasions and equivocations.
Increasingly, the inaccuracies, the elisions, and the equivocations were viewed as deliberate acts of subversion, efforts to assert some control over the past instead of simply recording it. Benjamin Soskis

Synonyms

  • circumlocution
  • shuffle
  • tergiversation
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Word History

First Known Use

1609, in the meaning defined above

equivocation

noun

1
as in ambiguity
deliberate evasion in speech your equivocation when asked where you were last night is not reassuring

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • ambiguity
  • shuffle
  • circumlocution
  • ambiguousness
  • tergiversation
  • quibbling
  • murkiness
  • opacity
  • nebulousness
  • equivocalness
  • obscurity
  • obscureness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • frankness
  • directness
  • openness
  • candor
  • forthrightness
  • straightforwardness
  • plainness
  • plumpness
  • openheartedness
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2
as in ambiguousness
the quality or state of having a veiled or uncertain meaning the equivocation of the last line of the poem, "That is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know"

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • ambiguity
  • ambiguousness
  • mysteriousness
  • uncertainty
  • mystery
  • murkiness
  • opaqueness
  • inscrutability
  • nebulousness
  • complexity
  • opacity
  • vagueness
  • obliqueness
  • nebulosity
  • obliquity
  • equivocalness
  • darkness
  • obscurity
  • fuzziness
  • indistinctness
  • indefiniteness
  • inscrutableness
  • indirectness
  • haziness
  • impenetrability
  • fogginess
  • dimness
  • faintness
  • depth
  • cloudiness
  • mistiness
  • incomprehensibility
  • obtuseness
  • complication
  • difficulty
  • profoundness
  • circuity
  • shade
  • shadow
  • abstruseness
  • reconditeness
  • deepness
  • incomprehensibleness
  • circuitousness
  • abstrusity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • clarity
  • obviousness
  • clearness
  • certainty
  • intelligibility
  • plainness
  • distinctness
  • exactness
  • comprehensibility
  • definiteness
  • brightness
  • surety
  • legibility
  • directness
  • openness
  • explicitness
  • lucidity
  • perspicuity
  • self-evidence
  • incision
  • incisiveness
  • forthrightness
  • straightforwardness
  • obviousness
  • palpability
  • visibility
  • lucidness
  • tangibility
  • readability
  • readableness
  • perspicuousness
  • tangibleness
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