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say it: VAYG-nis
vagueness is a noun meaning "unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning". It carries 2 recorded senses.
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”
indistinctness of shape or character
“the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for vagueness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.