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Vagueness   /vˈeɪgnɪs/   Listen
Vagueness

noun
1.
Unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning.  "These terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"
2.
Indistinctness of shape or character.





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"Vagueness" Quotes from Famous Books



... suggestion of God in space and time—now once definitely indicated, if never again. The untold pointed at—the heavens all paved with it. The Milky Way, as if some superhuman symphony, some ode of universal vagueness, disdaining syllable and sound—a flashing glance of Deity, address'd to the soul. All silently—the indescribable night ...
— Complete Prose Works - Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy • Walt Whitman
... or had minded only in the sense that he made it a matter of conscience not to mind. And aspects of it Mr. Upton had thought beautiful. And that Mrs. Upton felt all this he was sure from the very vagueness of her answer. ...
— A Fountain Sealed • Anne Douglas Sedgwick
... our hero, and, after a time, proceeded, observing that the very candour of the prisoner, in not taking advantage of his youthful appearance to deceive the jury, ought to be a strong argument in his favour. Mr Trevor then continued to address the jury upon the vagueness of the evidence, and, as he proceeded, observed—"Now, gentlemen of the jury, if this case had been offered to me to give an opinion upon, I should, without any previous knowledge of the prisoner, have just come to the following conclusion—I should ...
— The Poacher - Joseph Rushbrook • Frederick Marryat
... vacantly about her with an air of indifference. She seemed scarcely to realize that through the yellow vagueness the eyes of a hundred persons were ...
— A Son of Hagar - A Romance of Our Time • Sir Hall Caine
... more that your story is magnificent. The public finds it "vague," but to a writer who gloats over every line such vagueness is more transparent than holy water.... Hard as I tried I could detect only two small blots, even ...
— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov


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