Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun, plural am·bi·gu·i·ties.
- doubtfulness or uncertainty of meaning or intention: to speak with ambiguity; an ambiguity of manner.
- an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc.: a contract free of ambiguities; the ambiguities of modern poetry.
noun plural -ties
- the possibility of interpreting an expression in two or more distinct ways
- an instance of this, as in the sentence they are cooking apples
- vagueness or uncertainty of meaningthere are several ambiguities in the situation
c.1400, “uncertainty, doubt, indecision, hesitation,” also from Medieval Latin ambiguitatem (nominative ambiguitas) “double meaning, equivocalness, double sense,” noun of state from ambiguus (see ambiguous).