Vagueness

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Vagueness \Vague"ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being vague.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  vagueness
       n : unclearness by virtue of being vague

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  110 Moby Thesaurus words for "vagueness":
     airiness, airy texture, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness,
     anarchy, attenuation, bleariness, blobbiness, blur, blurriness,
     bodilessness, broadness, chaos, confusion, dark, darkness, defocus,
     delicacy, diaphanousness, dilutedness, dilution, dimness, disorder,
     entropy, ethereality, exiguity, exility, faintness, feebleness,
     filminess, fineness, flimsiness, fog, fogginess, formlessness,
     frailty, fuzziness, gauziness, generality, gossameriness,
     gracility, half-visibility, haziness, ill-definedness,
     immateriality, impalpability, imponderability, imprecision,
     inaccuracy, inchoateness, incoherence, incorporeality,
     indecisiveness, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness,
     indistinctness, indistinguishability, inexactness,
     insubstantiality, intangibility, laciness, laxity, lightness,
     looseness, low profile, messiness, mist, mistiness, mumbo jumbo,
     murk, murkiness, mystification, obfuscation, obscurantism,
     obscuration, obscurity, opacity, orderlessness, paleness,
     paperiness, perplexity, rarity, semivisibility, shadowiness,
     shapelessness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, soft focus,
     subtility, subtlety, sweepingness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness,
     uncertainty, unclarity, unclearness, unconcreteness, unplainness,
     unreality, unsolidity, unsubstantiality, unsubstantialness,
     vague appearance, wateriness, weakness, wispiness
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  VAGUENESS. Uncertainty. 
       2. Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and 
  indeed in all the acts on which courts have to give a judgment, and if they 
  be vague, so as not to be understood, they are in general invalid. 5 B. & C. 
  583; 1 Russ. & M. 116 1 Ch. Pract. 123. A charge of "frequent intemperance" 
  and "habitual indolence" are vague and too general. 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S. 
  530. See Certainty; Nonsense; Uncertainty.