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Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
Bernard Levin

Meaning of "vagueness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF VAGUENESS

vagueness  [ˈveɪɡnɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF VAGUENESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Vagueness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES VAGUENESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Vagueness

In analytic philosophy and linguistics, a concept may be considered vague if its extension is deemed lacking in clarity, if there is uncertainty about which objects belong to the concept or which exhibit characteristics that have this predicate, or if the Sorites paradox applies to the concept or predicate. In everyday speech, vagueness is an inevitable, often even desired effect of language usage. However, in most specialized texts, vagueness is distracting.

Definition of vagueness in the English dictionary

The definition of vagueness in the dictionary is lack of clarity or precision. Other definition of vagueness is lack of clear thinking or rational thought.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH VAGUENESS


Agnes
ˈæɡnɪs
awareness
əˈwɛənɪs
business
ˈbɪznɪs
darkness
ˈdɑːknɪs
Denis
ˈdɛnɪs
Dennis
ˈdɛnɪs
deviousness
ˈdiːvɪəsnɪs
effectiveness
ɪˈfɛktɪvnɪs
fitness
ˈfɪtnɪs
goodness
ˈɡʊdnɪs
happiness
ˈhæpɪnɪs
illness
ˈɪlnɪs
madness
ˈmædnɪs
penis
ˈpiːnɪs
smugness
ˈsmʌɡnɪs
tennis
ˈtɛnɪs
thickness
ˈθɪknɪs
tiredness
ˈtaɪədnɪs
Venice
ˈvɛnɪs
witness
ˈwɪtnɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE VAGUENESS

vaginectomies
vaginectomy
vaginismus
vaginitis
vaginosis
vaginula
vagitus
vagotomies
vagotomy
vagotonia
vagotonic
vagotropic
vagrancies
vagrancy
vagrant
vagrom
vague
vaguely
vagus
vagus nerve

WORDS THAT END LIKE VAGUENESS

adhesiveness
appropriateness
attentiveness
attractiveness
awesomeness
brand awareness
closeness
competitiveness
completeness
cost-effectiveness
cuteness
doneness
hoarseness
in the wilderness
likeness
oneness
responsiveness
self-awareness
soreness
uniqueness
whiteness

Synonyms and antonyms of vagueness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «VAGUENESS»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «vagueness» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of vagueness

Translation of «vagueness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF VAGUENESS

Find out the translation of vagueness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of vagueness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «vagueness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

模糊
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vaguedad
570 millions of speakers

English

vagueness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

अस्पष्टता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

غموض
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

расплывчатость
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imprecisão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অনিশ্চয়
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

imprécision
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kekaburan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vagheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

曖昧さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

애매 모호
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Vagueness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

không rõ ràng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

போதாமையின்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अस्पष्टता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

belirsizlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indeterminatezza
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niejasność
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

розпливчастість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

neclaritate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ασάφεια
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vaagheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vaghet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vaghet
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of vagueness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «VAGUENESS»

The term «vagueness» is regularly used and occupies the 66.093 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «VAGUENESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «vagueness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «vagueness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about vagueness

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10 QUOTES WITH «VAGUENESS»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word vagueness.
1
Amelia Barr
Human relations are built on feeling, not on reason or knowledge. And feeling is not an exact science; like all spiritual qualities, it has the vagueness of greatness about it.
2
Sebastian Horsley
Pain can be vitalising; it gives intensity in the place of vagueness and emptiness. If we don't suffer, how do we know that we live?
3
Charles Ives
Vagueness is at times an indication of nearness to a perfect truth.
4
Bernard Levin
Ask a man which way he is going to vote, and he will probably tell you. Ask him, however, why, and vagueness is all.
5
Claes Oldenburg
My struggle has been to return painting to the tangible object, which is like returning the personality to touching and feeling the world around it, to offset the tendency to vagueness and abstraction. To remind people of practical activity, to suggest the sense and not to escape from the senses.
6
Richard Owen
But, as we have before been led to remark, most of Mr. Darwin's statements elude, by their vagueness and incompleteness, the test of Natural History facts.
7
Wilfred Owen
I am only conscious of any satisfaction in Scientific Reading or thinking when it rounds off into a poetical generality and vagueness.
8
Steven Pinker
When people talk, they lay lines on each other, do a lot of role playing, sidestep, shilly-shally and engage in all manner of vagueness and innuendo. We do this and expect others to do it, yet at the same time we profess to long for the plain truth, for people to say what they mean, simple as that. Such hypocrisy is a human universal.
9
Kim Stanley Robinson
Science fiction rarely is about scientists doing real science, in its slowness, its vagueness, the sort of tedious quality of getting out there and digging amongst rocks and then trying to convince people that what you're seeing justifies the conclusions you're making.
10
Stendhal
Mathematics allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAGUENESS»

Discover the use of vagueness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to vagueness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Vagueness: A Guide: A Guide
This volume analyzes how vagueness occurs and matters as a specific problem in the context of theories that are primarily about something else.
Giuseppina Ronzitti, 2011
2
Vagueness
The assessment of the epistemic view is therefore one of the main tasks facing the study of vagueness. This book contributes to that task. The assessment of the epistemic view has ramifications far beyond the study of vagueness. As already ...
Timothy Williamson, 2002
3
Vagueness in Normative Texts
The papers in this volume discuss important legal and linguistic aspects relating to the use of vagueness in legal drafting and demonstrate why such aspects are critical to our understanding of the way normative texts function.
Vijay Kumar Bhatia, 2005
4
Vagueness, Logic and Ontology
This book will be of particular interest to readers in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive science and geographic information systems.
Mr Dominic Hyde, 2012
5
Vagueness: Webster's Quotations, Facts and Phrases
Proceeds from this book are used to expand the content and coverage of Websters Online Dictionary (www.websters-online-dictionary.org).
‎2008
6
Aspects of Vagueness
The papers in this volume consist of the invited lectures delivered at the Conference, Section 7: Non-Classical Logics and Modelling, as well as some selected papers which offer an introduction to the philosophy, methodology and to the lite ...
Heinz J. Skala, S. Termini, E. Trillias, 1984
7
Truth, Vagueness, and Paradox: An Essay on the Logic of Truth
Awarded the 1988 Johnsonian Prize in Philosophy. Published with the aid of a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Vann McGee, 1990
8
Vagueness and Degrees of Truth
In Vagueness and Degrees of Truth, Nicholas Smith develops a new theory of vagueness: fuzzy plurivaluationism.
Nicholas J. J. Smith, 2008
9
Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness
We often think in discontinuous categories when we are considering something continuous. In this book, van Deemter cuts across various disciplines in considering the nature and importance of vagueness.
Kees van Deemter, 2010
10
Vagueness in Law
The book defends that claim and explains its implications for legal theory. Vague language is the book's focus, but vagueness is not merely a linguistic feature of law. Law is necessarily vague.
Timothy Andrew Orville Endicott, 2000

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAGUENESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term vagueness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Apple stock slides on smartwatch vagueness
SAN FRANCISCO – Apple's stock slid sharply Tuesday after the company reported strong iPhone sales but remained coy about the performance of its new ... «The Spokesman Review, Jul 15»
2
UN human rights chief raises concern over breadth, vagueness of …
BERLIN – The United Nations' human rights chief says he is worried by the breadth and vagueness of new national security legislation approved last week by ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
3
Lee Slams State's Vagueness on Kerry's Health Status: 'You Realize …
Lee Slams State's Vagueness on Kerry's Health Status: 'You Realize That You Brought This On Yourself'. 'The questions about what's going on ... you're ... «Washington Free Beacon, Jun 15»
4
Court considers limits to vagueness in statutes
The Supreme Court on Monday tried to discern just how vague and opaque a law must be before the justices should strike down the whole thing and tell ... «Washington Post, Apr 15»
5
Dodd-Frank anti-spoofing statute not void for vagueness for high …
In United States v. Coscia, the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois Eastern Division declined to dismiss an indictment for “spoofing” against a high ... «Lexology, Apr 15»
6
Supreme Court refers UK verdicts to show vagueness of S-66A of IT …
"In fact, two English judgements cited by the ASG would demonstrate how vague the words used in Section 66A are," a bench of justices J Chelameswar and ... «Economic Times, Mar 15»
7
A conspiracy of vagueness over the future of the NHS
As was expected, George Osborne's Budget was influenced by the imminence of the election. The Chancellor used the windfall of lower inflation and falling ... «The Independent, Mar 15»
8
The US war on vagueness
Politics. The US war on vagueness. The White House steers away from specifics as conference on how to combat "extremism" is convened in Washington. «Aljazeera.com, Feb 15»
9
Re: the vagueness issues in Johnson
Co-blogger Will Baude recently blogged about the Supreme Court's unusual re-argument order in Johnson v. United States, a case on the residual clause of the ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
10
Is Vagueness Killing Advertising?
There is no place for vagueness. It's not creative to call something different, it's not more exciting to coin a new word, it's not useful to be hyperbolic and generate ... «Adweek, Nov 14»

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