Synonyms:
ambiguity
Meaning: an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context
Synonyms:
ambiguity, equivocalness
Meaning: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
Usage examples
This ambiguity is most conspicuous, perhaps, in the most absorbing of the personages which a man constructs in this imaginative fashion--his idea of himself.
The former would simply be followed by the reflection: "A drove of mustangs." The latter conducts to a different train of thought, in which there is an ambiguity.