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UNCLEARNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("unclearness" is a kind of...):
incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unclearness"):
elusiveness (the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down)
vagueness (unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning)
inexplicitness (unclearness by virtue of not being explicit)
ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)
Antonym:
clearness (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)
Derivation:
unclear (not clear to the mind)
unclear (poorly stated or described)
unclear (not easily deciphered)
