Ambiguity vs Variability - What's the difference?
ambiguity | variability |
(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.
(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
the state or characteristic of being variable
the degree to which a thing is variable. In data or statistics this is often a measurement of distance from the mean or a description of data range.
As nouns the difference between ambiguity and variability
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 variability is the state or characteristic of being variable.ambiguity
English
(wikipedia ambiguity)Noun
- His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.