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VAGUENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Indistinctness of shape or character
Example:
the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vagueness" is a kind of...):
blurriness; fogginess; fuzziness; indistinctness; softness (the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines)
Derivation:
vague (lacking clarity or distinctness)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning
Example:
these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vagueness" is a kind of...):
unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vagueness"):
haziness (vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined)
Derivation:
vague (not clearly expressed or understood)
vague (not precisely limited, determined, or distinguished)
