Imprecision

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Want of precision or exactness; defect of accuracy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. Lack of precision.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Lack of precision or exactness; defect of accuracy.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of lacking precision
  • Word Usage
    "MWDEU remarks that the phrase’s very imprecision is its greatest virtue: “writers don’t always want to be precise”."
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