UNCLEARNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unclearness mean? 

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

1. incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNCLEARNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("unclearness" is a kind of...):

incomprehensibility (the quality of being incomprehensible)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "unclearness"):

elusiveness (the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down)

vagueness (unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning)

inexplicitness (unclearness by virtue of not being explicit)

ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)

Antonym:

clearness (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)

Derivation:

unclear (not clear to the mind)

unclear (poorly stated or described)

unclear (not easily deciphered)