0 (an example of) the fact of something having more than one possible meaning and therefore possibly causing confusion:
We wish to remove any ambiguity concerning our demands.
There are some ambiguities in the legislation.
1 a situation or statement that is unclear because it can be understood in more than one way:
[ C ] This is a first step toward clarifying things, but there are still many ambiguities.
2 a situation in which something has more than one possible meaning and may therefore cause confusion, or an example of this:
3 the state of being uncertain:
ambiguity about sth You need to clear up any ambiguity about the agency's fundamental purpose.
There is some ambiguity in the Bible story, and it has been interpreted in different ways.
Is he now saying that he's in favour of going to war? His statement is full of ambiguity.
Let me say this, to avoid any ambiguity, - I am not leaving my wife.
Be as precise as possible in your answer, so that there is no ambiguity.
Because there are fewer constraints to the parameter values in qualitative modeling, there inevitably exists ambiguity.
While purely indefinite examples are hard to come by, verbal gerunds do participate in the ambiguity patterns also found for bare nominal gerunds.
In short, perhaps the source of ' religious ambiguity ' is not the evidence, but the will.
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