516. [Idea to be conveyed.] Meaning [Thing signified.] -- N. meaning; signification, significance; sense, expression; import, purport; force; drift, tenor, spirit, bearing, coloring; scope.
517. [Absence of meaning.] Unmeaningness -- N. meaninglessness, unmeaningness &c adj. ; scrabble.
518. Intelligibility -- N. intelligibility; clearness, explicitness &c adj.; lucidity, comprehensibility, perspicuity; legibility, plain speaking &c (manifestation) 525; precision &c 494; phonanta synetoisy [Gr.] ; a word to the wise.
519. Unintelligibility -- N. unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity ; inconceivableness, vagueness &c adj.; obscurity; ambiguity &c 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty &c 475; perplexity &c (confusion) 59; spinosity ; obscurum per obscurius [Lat.] ; mystification &c (concealment) 528; latency &c 526; transcendentalism.
520. [Having a double sense] Equivocalness -- N. equivocalness &c adj.; double meaning &c 516; ambiguity, double entente, double entendre [Fr.] , pun, paragram , calembour , quibble, equivoque [Fr.] , anagram; conundrum &c (riddle) 533; play on words, word play &c (wit) 842; homonym, homonymy [Gramm.] ; amphiboly , amphibology ; ambilogy , ambiloquy .
521. Metaphor -- N. figure of speech; facon de parler [Fr.] , way of speaking, colloquialism.
522. Interpretation -- N. interpretation, definition; explanation, explication; solution, answer; rationale; plain interpretation, simple interpretation, strict interpretation; meaning &c 516.
523. Misinterpretation -- N. misinterpretation, misapprehension, misunderstanding, misacceptation , misconstruction, misapplication; catachresis ; eisegesis ; cross-reading, cross-purposes; mistake &c 495.
524. Interpreter -- N. interpreter; expositor, expounder, exponent, explainer; demonstrator.