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US
/ˈveɪɡnɪs/
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[ UK /vˈeɪɡnəs/ ]
[ UK /vˈeɪɡnəs/ ]
NOUN
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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 -
indistinctness of shape or character
the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner
How To Use vagueness In A Sentence
- Many people in York suspect the vagueness the company expresses about its intentions could be a smokescreen.
- Of course, these predicates unleash a horde of problems concerning vagueness, subjectivity, and intentionality, but difficulties along these lines do not imperil the basic approach.
- However, the newest revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), a cornerstone of psychiatry, plans to address this vagueness so that current EDNOS patients will no longer struggle with that uncertainty. John Whyte, M.D., MPH: Understanding 'Non-Specified Eating Disorders'
- The 'story', if it can be called that, opens in mystery and proceeds through ambiguity, equivocation, and vagueness.
- It is extremely difficult to distinguish in observation between vagueness of the illusion due to feebleness in the after-image depending on faint illumination, dark-colored discs or lack of the desirable difference in luminosity between the sectors (cf.p. 171) and the indefiniteness which is due to broad transition-bands existing between the (relatively) pure-color bands. Harvard Psychological Studies, Volume 1 Containing Sixteen Experimental Investigations from the Harvard Psychological Laboratory.
- And if I catch you letting a word outa you about this deal, I'll just about have to arrest you for -- "He did not quite know what, but the very vagueness of the threat had its effect upon Lonesome Land
- Her great success has lain in her willingness to use the vagueness and flexibility of the Constitution to her own ends.
- Defection on the way to Americanization was common; vitiated practice and invincible vagueness about belief and conviction were not a cause for alarm but the best that could be achieved under unpropitious conditions.
- This paper aims at confirming the positive significance of pragmatic vagueness in verbal communication and revealing some specific advantages of this phenome.
- This vagueness and insubstantiality is bound up with the director's artistic-intellectual outlook and methods.
