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ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

defense mechanism collapse: (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

fluctuation collapse: the quality of being unsteady and subject to changes; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"; a wave motion; "the fluctuations of the sea"

mystification collapse: the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered; something designed to mystify or bewilder

sophistication collapse: falsification by the use of sophistry; misleading by means of specious fallacies; "he practiced the art of sophistication upon reason"; the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment; being expert or having knowledge of some technical subject; "understanding affine transformations requires considerable mathematical sophistication"

speciousness collapse: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument"

vicious circle collapse: an argument that assumes that which is to be proved; one trouble leads to another that aggravates the first

analogy collapse: drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect; "the operation of a computer presents and interesting analogy to the working of the brain"; "the models show by analogy how matter is built up"; an inference that if things agree in some respects they probably agree in others

insincerity collapse: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical

hairsplitting collapse: making too fine distinctions of little importance; "they didn't take his hairsplitting seriously"

prevention collapse: the act of preventing; "there was no bar against leaving"; "money was allocated to study the cause and prevention of influenza"

forbearance collapse: a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"

quibble collapse: an evasion of the point of an argument by raising irrelevant distinctions or objections; argue over petty things; "Let's not quibble over pennies"; evade the truth of a point or question by raising irrelevant objections

casuistry collapse: moral philosophy based on the application of general ethical principles to resolve moral dilemmas; argumentation that is specious or excessively subtle and intended to be misleading

evasion collapse: the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver; nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do; "his evasion of his clear duty was reprehensible"; "that escape from the consequences is possible but unattractive"; the deliberate act of failing to pay money; "his evasion of all his creditors"; "he was indicted for nonpayment"; a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

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