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elusiveness
the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down
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vagueness
unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning
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inexplicitness
unclearness by virtue of not being explicit
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ambiguity, equivocalness
unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning
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haziness
vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined
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implicitness
inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect
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equivocation, evasiveness, prevarication
intentionally vague or ambiguous
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lexical ambiguity, polysemy
the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
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no man's land, twilight zone
the ambiguous region between two categories or states or conditions (usually containing some features of both)
