INDEFINITENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does indefiniteness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being vague and poorly defined

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDEFINITENESS (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 ("indefiniteness" 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 "indefiniteness"):

inconclusiveness (the quality of being inconclusive)

Derivation:

indefinite (not decided or not known)

indefinite (vague or not clearly defined or stated)

 Context examples 

Instead, he put it off with vagueness and indefiniteness and inquired after the family, particularly after Mrs. Morse and Ruth.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)