| 释义 |
ambiguity
/am'bi gyooh"i tee/, n. , pl. ambiguities.
1. doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
2. an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.
[1375-1425; late ME ambiguite < L ambiguitas, equiv. to ambigu(us) AMBIGUOUS + -itas -ITY]
Syn. 1. vagueness, deceptiveness. 2. equivocation.
Ant. 1. explicitness, clarity. |