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In [[linguistics]], '''referential indeterminacy''' is a situation in which different people vary in naming objects. For example, [[William Labov]] studied this effect using illustrations of different drinking vessels to see what people would label as "cups" and what people would label as "mugs".

==See also==
* {{annotated link|Idiolect}}
* {{annotated link|Ontology}}
* {{annotated link|Polysemy}}
* {{annotated link|Regiolect}}
* [[wikt:Wiktionary:Semantic relations|Semantic relations]]
* {{annotated link|Synonym|Synonymy}}

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