Associations to the word «Ambiguity»

Wiktionary

AMBIGUITY, noun. (countable) Something, particularly words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
AMBIGUITY, noun. (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.

Dictionary definition

AMBIGUITY, noun. An expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context.
AMBIGUITY, noun. Unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope