vagueness

noun

1 she used the vagueness and flexibility of the constitution to her own ends:

impreciseness, inexactness, lack of precision, ambiguity, woolliness, looseness, unclearness, obscurity, indistinctness, generality, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, haziness, cloudiness, fuzziness, mistiness, lack of definition.

▷antonyms precision.

2 the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner:

fuzziness, blurriness, indeterminateness, indefiniteness, lack of focus, lack of definition, obscurity, haziness, cloudiness, mistiness, murkiness, fogginess, faintness, shadowiness, dimness, nebulosity, nebulousness, shapelessness, formlessness, amorphousness.

▷antonyms sharpness.

3 an amiable eccentric whose vagueness probably results from constant imbibing:

absent-mindedness, forgetfulness, disorganization, dreaminess, inattention, abstraction, woolgathering, empty-headedness, giddiness, confusion, befuddlement.

▷antonyms sharpness.