tergiversation

Senso (Inglese)

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.

Concetti

sotterfugio

cavillo

appiccagnolo

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sinonimi

subterfuge

elusion

equivocation

apostasy

evasion

guile

inconstancy

instability

loophole

lubricity

mercurialness

mutability

prevarication

quibble

quirk

shift

skittishness

stall

treachery

volatileness

apostacy

deception

defection

dodge

Traduzioni

evasiva

dérobade

Ausflucht

subtilesa

υπεκφυγή

Ausflüchte

apostasia

Quiddität

αστασία

παλινωδία

Spitzfindigkeit

apostasie

argutie

tergiversació

ambigüitat

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/tɝd͡ʒɪvɚˈseɪʃən/

Etimologia (Inglese)

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