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vaguery

noun
/ˈveɪɡəɹi/

Etymology

From vague + -ery, perhaps influenced by vagary. Attested since at least the 1800s.

  1. derived from vagus — “uncertain, vague”
  2. derived from vague
  3. suffixed as vaguery — “vague + ery”

Definitions

  1. Vagueness, the condition of being vague.

    • […] this badge of rivalry and intrusion, and of the vaguery and vacillation which restrain them through dread of danger.
    • As a matter of fact, the particular breadth and vaguery of residual all-British consciousness decays more readily into racialism than into a defined, territorially restricted nationalism.

  2. A vagueness, a thing which is vague, an example of vagueness.

  3. Misspelling of vagary.

    • Some were indeed powerful men belonging to powerful families, exercising authority and influence, but the vagueries of colonial economic conditions made their holdings precarious.
    • Yet whatever their faith in the importance of a politicized citizenry, the framers of the Indian Constitution left little to the vagueries of mass political participation.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for vaguery. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA