Prevarication vs Ambiguity - What's the difference?
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Deviation from what is right or correct; transgression, perversion.
Evasion of the truth; deceit, evasiveness.
* Cowper
* 2012 , The Economist, Oct 6th 2012,
A secret abuse in the exercise of a public office.
(legal, historical, Ancient Rome) The collusion of an informer with the defendant, for the purpose of making a sham prosecution.
(legal) A false or deceitful seeming to undertake a thing for the purpose of defeating or destroying it.
(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.
Prevarication is a related term of ambiguity.
As nouns the difference between prevarication and ambiguity
is that prevarication is maladministration while ambiguity is (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.prevarication
English
Noun
(en noun)- Prevarication became the order of the day in his government while truth was a stranger in those halls.
- The august tribunal of the skies, where no prevarication shall avail.
Charlemagne: Mysterious Mariano
- Mr Rajoy frustrates many with his prevarication over a fresh euro-zone bail-out, which now comes with a conditional promise from the European Central Bank (ECB) to help bring down Spain’s stifling borrowing costs.
- (Cowell)
ambiguity
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(wikipedia ambiguity)Noun
- His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.