[f. as prec. + -NESS.] The quality of being ambiguous; capability of being understood in various ways.
1679. Animadv. Speeches Jesuits, 2. Mental equivocation, not on the account of ambiguousness in the words … but because of a double sense in some Proposition.
1837. Hallam, Hist. Lit., III. ii. § 26. Close reasoning which … yields to no ambiguousness of language.
1861. Goschen, For. Exch., 95. The ambiguousness of the term ‘favorable exchanges.’
