Definitions for vagueness
vague·ness

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1. vaguenessnoun

   unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning

   "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"

2. vaguenessnoun

   indistinctness of shape or character

   "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"

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1. vaguenessnoun

   The condition of being unclear; vague.

2. vaguenessnoun

   Something which is vague, or an instance or example of vagueness.

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1. Vagueness

   In linguistics and philosophy, a vague predicate is one which gives rise to borderline cases. For example, the English adjective "tall" is vague since it is not clearly true or false for someone of middling height. By contrast, the word "prime" is not vague since every number is definitively either prime or not. Vagueness is commonly diagnosed by a predicate's ability to give rise to the Sorites paradox. Vagueness is separate from ambiguity, in which an expression has multiple denotations. For instance the word "bank" is ambiguous since it can refer either to a river bank or to a financial institution, but there are no borderline cases between both interpretations. Vagueness is a major topic of research in philosophical logic, where it serves as a potential challenge to classical logic. Work in formal semantics has sought to provide a compositional semantics for vague expressions in natural language. Work in philosophy of language has addressed implications of vagueness for the theory of meaning, while metaphysicians have considered whether reality itself is vague.

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1. vagueness

   Vagueness refers to the lack of clarity or precision in communication or information, often causing confusion or misunderstanding. It can also refer to a deliberate lack of specificity or detail, or the existence of grey areas or ambiguity in a situation, concept, idea or statement.

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1. Vaguenessnoun

   the quality or state of being vague

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1. Vagueness

   The term vagueness denotes a property of concepts. A concept is vague: ⁕if the concept's extension is unclear; ⁕if there are objects which one cannot say with certainty whether belong to a group of objects which are identified with this concept or which exhibit characteristics that have this predicate; ⁕if the Sorites paradox applies to the concept or predicate. In everyday speech, vagueness is an inevitable, often even desired effect of language usage. However, in most specialized texts, vagueness is distracting and should be avoided whenever possible.

Matched Categories

1. • Indistinctness
   • Unclearness

How to pronounce vagueness?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say vagueness in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of vagueness in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of vagueness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of vagueness in a Sentence

1. China President Joerg Wuttke:

   Such vagueness creates a great deal of uncertainty for business, as it implicitly leaves the Chinese government with the option of undermining foreign market access based on unclear and broad national security considerations.

2. Philippine Foreign Secretary Teodoro Locsin:

   I believe in the old theory of deterrence, in vagueness lies the best deterrence.

3. Beranrd Levin:

   Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=vagueness
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Vagueness
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagueness
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vagueness
6. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=vagueness