impreciseness

Absence of accuracy

Impreciseness is the quality of lacking exactness or clarity.

The word functions as a noun form of imprecise, though imprecision is more common and sounds less awkward: The impreciseness of his directions left us wandering for hours.

measurement

approximation

Near but inexact value

rough · rounded · range · tolerance · about · circa · near · close · leeway · deviation

expression

vagueness

Absence of precision

generality · nonspecific · unspecific · loose · broad · sketchy · hand-wavy · equivocal · hedging · qualifier

boundaries

fuzziness

Indistinct or unclear quality

ill-defined · amorphous · formless · unsharp · smudged · smeared · bleeding · feathered · gradation · continuum

Opposites
exactitude and accuracy

imprecisenesspreciseness

Quality of being exact

precision · exactness · exactitude · accuracy · exactingness

Family

precise, precision, precisely, imprecise, preciseness, imprecision, inexactness, imprecisely, imprecisions

Familiarity
Top 500,000
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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Everyday, not technical · Rated G