VAGUENESS

vagueness

(noun) indistinctness of shape or character; “the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner”

vagueness

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

vagueness (countable and uncountable, plural vaguenesses)

(uncountable) The condition of being unclear; vague.

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

Source: Wiktionary


Vague"ness, n.

Definition: The quality or state of being vague.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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3 July 2025

SENSE

(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended; “in the dark he had to depend on touch and on his senses of smell and hearing”


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