vagueness
/ˈveɪɡnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1Lack 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.
Synonyms
fuzziness, blurriness, indeterminateness, indefiniteness, lack of focus, lack of definition, obscurity, haziness, cloudiness, mistiness, murkiness, fogginess, faintness, shadowiness, dimness, nebulosity, nebulousness, shapelessness, formlessness, amorphousness
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.
Synonyms
impreciseness, inexactness, lack of precision, ambiguity, woolliness, looseness, unclearness, obscurity, indistinctness, generality, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, haziness, cloudiness, fuzziness, mistiness, lack of definition