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单词 ambiguity
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.
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