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UK
/ˌæmbɪɡjˈuːɪti/
]
[ US /ˌæmbɪɡˈjuəti/ ]
[ US /ˌæmbɪɡˈjuəti/ ]
NOUN
- an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
- unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
How To Use ambiguity In A Sentence
- Advancing age has occasionally brought resolution, more often just a little understanding, to many of these riddles, but not necessarily to the resilient ambiguity of history.
- Nowhere was this ambiguity more apparent than concerning the question of sovereignty.
- He uses the ambiguity of passageways and transitional spaces to construct an esthetic of anticipation.
- There is no such ambiguity about a skills analysis which is always person-orientated and not just system-orientated.
- The ambiguity inherent in that fantasy of unpinning suggests not only the male desire, but also the very real potential of a female "wildness" that desires release.
- In its seeming ambiguity yet divine reality it remains free of the influence of humankind and our lusts.
- The term implies something less than the ideal outcome of a war: reservation, equivocation, ambiguity, limitation—substitutes for victory. Between War and Peace
- He means that death repeals the whole implied adventure of being missing, and a certain tantalising ambiguity enters the picture.
- The output from a character recogniser requires further processing to reduce the ambiguity and hence increase the accuracy of recognition.
- Fortunately, for the advocates of both schools of thought, the brief text contains sufficient ambiguity to support a colorable claim for either position.