Definition of Ambiguity

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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.

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Ambiguity Quotations

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.
Sigmund Freud

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

I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.
Keith Richards

On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.
Adam Smith

During the Cold War, we lived in coded times when it wasn't easy and there were shades of grey and ambiguity.
John Le Carre

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 use of the polygraph has done little more than create confusion, ambiguity and mistakes.
Aldrich Ames

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.
David Kay

These films however, have ambiguity built into them, because it's too easy in film to make a strident work of propaganda or advertising, which are really the same thing anyway, meaning the message is unmistakable.
Godfrey Reggio

Ambiguity in directors is a hard thing to deal with.
Skeet Ulrich

Ambiguity Translations

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

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