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vagueness
Part of speech: NounState of being uncertain or unsettled.
Usage examples "vagueness":- All this was expressed with admirable vagueness, but the man understood. - "Flowing Gold", Rex Beach.
- But still Eleanor could not feel satisfied; there was a dreamy vagueness about the little girl, a want, it seemed to Eleanor, of realising her fault to the full, which puzzled and perplexed her. - "A Christmas Posy", Mary Louisa Stewart Molesworth.
- While the vagueness of the tradition and the absence of definite incident and individual character associated with it were conditions unfavourable to novelty and vividness of representation, yet they allowed to Virgil great latitude in carrying out his purpose of giving body and substance to all that unknown and shadowy past, which survived only in names, customs, and ceremonies. - "The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil", W. Y. Sellar.