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Pronunciation / Transliteration: ambiguïté
"Il y a une ambiguïté dans sa déclaration."
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
1 sense- 1
The quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
"We can detect no ambiguity in this agreement."
Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Late Middle English: from Old French ambiguité or Latin ambiguitas, from ambiguus 'doubtful, ambiguous'.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Ambiguity" is said worldwide
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ambiguïté
Transliteration: ambiguïté
"Il y a une ambiguïté dans sa déclaration."
Mehrdeutigkeit
Transliteration: Mehrdeutigkeit
"Die Formulierung enthält eine gewisse Mehrdeutigkeit."
ambiguità
Transliteration: ambiguità
"Dobbiamo evitare ogni ambiguità nel contratto."
ambigüedad
Transliteration: ambigüedad
"El contrato está redactado sin ambigüedad."
ambiguidade
Transliteration: ambiguidade
"A frase foi escrita com alguma ambiguidade."
अand स्पष्टता
Transliteration: aspashtata
Script: अस्पष्टता
"इस बात में थोड़ी अस्पष्टता है।"
歧义
Transliteration: qíyì
"这句话存在一些歧义。"
모호성
Transliteration: mohoseong
"그 계약서에는 약간의 모호성이 있습니다."
曖昧さ
Transliteration: aimaisa
"彼の発言にはいくつかの曖昧さがあった。"
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