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Ambiguity vs Equivocality - What's the difference?

ambiguity | equivocality |

As nouns the difference between ambiguity and equivocality

is that ambiguity is something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context while equivocality is the quality of being equivocal.

ambiguity

English

(wikipedia ambiguity)

Noun

  • (countable) Something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
    • His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.
  • (uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.

    • Synonyms

    * (state of being ambiguous) ambiguousness, imprecision

    Antonyms

    * unambiguity

    Related terms

    * ambiguous

    equivocality

    English

    Noun

  • The quality of being equivocal.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=March 29, author=Dave Kehr, title=A Star Who Mastered a New Moral Ambiguity, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The military lent a new context to Mr. Widmark’s moral equivocality : in films like “Halls of Montezuma,” “The Frogmen,” “Take the High Ground!” and “Destination Gobi” Mr. Widmark played hard-bitten commanders whose apparent coldness and cruelty masked a deeper concern with the safety of their men. }}