vagueness

Noun
US[veyg-nis]/ˈveɪɡnɪs/2 syllables

Open English WordNet

Noun (2)

  1. 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”Type of unclearnessKinds haziness
  2. indistinctness of shape or character“the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner”Type of indistinctness, softness
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)

Vague′ness noun

The quality or state of being vague.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54

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