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INDETERMINACY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does indeterminacy mean?
• INDETERMINACY (noun)
The noun INDETERMINACY has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being vague and poorly defined
Familiarity information: INDETERMINACY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being vague and poorly defined
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
indefiniteness; indefinity; indeterminacy; indeterminateness; indetermination
Hypernyms ("indeterminacy" is a kind of...):
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "indeterminacy"):
inconclusiveness (the quality of being inconclusive)
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