INDETERMINATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indeterminateness mean? 

• INDETERMINATENESS (noun)
  The noun INDETERMINATENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being vague and poorly defined

  Familiarity information: INDETERMINATENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDETERMINATENESS (noun)

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 ("indeterminateness" 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 "indeterminateness"):

inconclusiveness (the quality of being inconclusive)

Derivation:

indeterminate (not leading to a definite ending or result)

indeterminate ((of a quantity) having no definite value, as an equation that cannot be solved)

indeterminate (not precisely determined or established; not fixed or known in advance)

indeterminate (of uncertain or ambiguous nature)