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Vagueness

noun

Unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning. "These terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey"

Indistinctness of shape or character.

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"Vagueness" Quotes from Famous Books

... the book lay there between her knees, all its technical vagueness menacing her with unknown terrors; and she felt that she could endure ...

— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... Jack is an independent boy, and has no taste for being dominated. So that I fear that dear Maud's most touching efforts hardly fell on very responsive soil. She felt, I think, the failure of her efforts; and kind as Cousin Anne is, there is, I think, a certain vagueness of outline about her mind. I would not call her a fatalist, but she has little conception of the possibility of moulding character;—it's a rich mind, but perhaps an indecisive mind? Maud needed a vocation—she needed ...

— Watersprings • Arthur Christopher Benson

... ghostly character—all my fears had been of malicious natives and tigers; they now, however, changed, and I was confronted with a dread of what I could not understand and could not analyse—of something that suggested an appearance, alarming on account of its very vagueness. ...

— Werwolves • Elliott O'Donnell

... the day the west wind held its breath. The flames crawled, ate their way instead of leaping hungrily. The smoke rose in dun clouds above the burning area and settled in gray vagueness all through the woods, drifting in wisps, in streamers, in fantastic curlings, pungent, acrid, choking the men. The heat of the fire and the heat of the summer sun in a windless sky made the valley floor a sweat-bath in which the loggers worked stripped to undershirts and overalls, ...

— The Hidden Places • Bertrand W. Sinclair

... at the time thought highly of this performance. I remember one fellow saying that Number 2 seemed to have caught the spirit of Mr Browning without his vagueness, which ...

— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed

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