tergiversation

Significat (Anglès)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

Conceptes

evasió

ambigüitat

subtilesa

tergiversació

apostasia

Sinònims

subterfuge

elusion

equivocation

apostasy

evasion

guile

inconstancy

instability

loophole

lubricity

mercurialness

mutability

prevarication

quibble

quirk

shift

skittishness

stall

treachery

volatileness

apostacy

deception

defection

dodge

Traduccions

sotterfugio

evasiva

dérobade

Ausflucht

αστασία

παλινωδία

υπεκφυγή

apostasie

argutie

échappatoire

tergiversation

cavillo

appiccagnolo

🪝

calumnia

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/tɝd͡ʒɪvɚˈseɪʃən/

Etimologia (Anglès)

From Latin tergiversātiō, from tergiversārī (“to turn one's back, to evade, to avoid”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to tergiversate + -ion.