What's the noun form of 'ambiguous'?

✅ "Ambiguous" is an adjective. It describes something (usually a statement or information) that is unclear or confusing because it can be understood in more than one way.
🔸 His reply to my question was ambiguous; I didn’t know whether he was agreeing or disagreeing with me.
🔸 As a writer she had an ambiguous relationship with her illness. (The Guardian)
🔸 Best practice as an academic is to keep things ambiguous, up for debate, weighing all possibilities, consulting sources widely. (The Guardian)

✅ "Ambiguity" is a noun. It is the quality of being open to more than one interpretation; inexactness.
🔸 The ambiguity of her smile made me wonder what she was thinking.
🔸 Yet fiction loses its special power if it seeks to instruct or clarify, rather than losing itself in ambiguity or what the philosopher Richard Rorty called contingency and irony. (The Guardian – Opinion)
🔸 Foreign oil companies have gone ahead and signed exploration and production contracts despite this ambiguity. (The Economist)

Understanding the difference between these two forms can help you improve your English proficiency! Keep learning and expanding your vocabulary! 💡

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