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Definition of Ambiguity

Ambiguity The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression. Related Definitions: Admitting, Ambiguous, An, Arising, As, Being, Doubtfulness, Equivocal, Expression, From, Language, Meaning, More, Of, One, Or, Particularly, Quality, Signification, State, Than, The, To, Uncertainty, Word

Ambiguity Quotations I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world. Carl Sandburg The goal is to live a full, productive life even with all that ambiguity. No matter what hap- pens, whether the cancer never flares up again or whether you die, the important thing is that the days that you have had you will have lived. Gilda Radner Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with. Skeet Ulrich Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be. Roger von Oech Naturally, the reader has access only to the events I show and the way I show them, but as has been said, there's generally a good deal of ambiguity in that presentation. John M. Ford

Ambiguity Translations ambiguity in German is Doppelsinnigkeit ambiguity in Italian is equivoco ambiguity in Swedish is tvetydighet

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