VAGUENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

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)