amphiboly
/amˈfɪbəli/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "1781, Kant, "Critique of Pure Reason," from John Meiklejohn 1855 translation Without this reflection I should make a very unsafe use of these conceptions, and construct pretended synthetical propositions which critical reason cannot acknowledge and which are based solely upon a transcendental amphiboly, that is, upon a substitution of an object of pure understanding for a phenomenon."
- "By logical errors I mean such simple things as Equivocation, Amphiboly, and Begging the Question."
- "The language might be fraught with word ambiguity or sentence amphiboly."
Etymology
From Old French amphibolie, from Latin amphibolia, from Ancient Greek ἀμφιβολία (amphibolía, “ambiguity”).
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: *gʷelH-, amphibolie, amphibolia, ἀμφιβολία
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /amˈfɪbəli/