Vagueness
Vague´ness
VAGUENESS. Uncertainty.
2. Certainty is required in contracts, wills, pleadings, judgments, and
indeed in all the acts on which courts have to give a judgment, and if they
be vague, so as not to be understood, they are in general invalid. 5 B. & C.
583; 1 Russ. & M. 116 1 Ch. Pract. 123. A charge of "frequent intemperance"
and "habitual indolence" are vague and too general. 2 Mart. Lo. Rep. N. S.
530. See Certainty; Nonsense; Uncertainty.
airiness,
airy texture,
amorphia,
amorphism,
amorphousness,
anarchy,
attenuation,
bleariness,
blobbiness,
blur,
blurriness,
bodilessness,
broadness,
chaos,
confusion,
dark,
darkness,
defocus,
delicacy,
diaphanousness,
dilutedness,
dilution,
dimness,
disorder,
entropy,
ethereality,
exiguity,
exility,
faintness,
feebleness,
filminess,
fineness,
flimsiness,
fog,
fogginess,
formlessness,
frailty,
fuzziness,
gauziness,
generality,
gossameriness,
gracility,
half-visibility,
haziness,
ill-definedness,
immateriality,
impalpability,
imponderability,
imprecision,
inaccuracy,
inchoateness,
incoherence,
incorporeality,
indecisiveness,
indefinableness,
indefiniteness,
indeterminateness,
indistinctness,
indistinguishability,
inexactness,
insubstantiality,
intangibility,
laciness,
laxity,
lightness,
looseness,
low profile,
messiness,
mist,
mistiness,
mumbo jumbo,
murk,
murkiness,
mystification,
obfuscation,
obscurantism,
obscuration,
obscurity,
opacity,
orderlessness,
paleness,
paperiness,
perplexity,
rarity,
semivisibility,
shadowiness,
shapelessness,
slenderness,
slightness,
slimness,
soft focus,
subtility,
subtlety,
sweepingness,
tenuity,
tenuousness,
thinness,
uncertainty,
unclarity,
unclearness,
unconcreteness,
unplainness,
unreality,
unsolidity,
unsubstantiality,
unsubstantialness,
vague appearance,
wateriness,
weakness,
wispiness