Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: vagueness
IPA transcription: [v'eɪɡnɪs]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: vagueness
    Meaning: 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"
Usage examples
  • The question was a terrible one, and Isabel took refuge in timorous vagueness.
  • It all hung together; they were subject, he and the great vagueness, to an equal and indivisible law. When the possibilities themselves had accordingly turned stale, when the secret of the gods had grown faint, had perhaps even quite evaporated, that, and that only, was failure.