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ELUSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down
Example:
the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("elusiveness" is a kind of...):
unclearness (incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear)
Derivation:
elusive (skillful at eluding capture)
elusive (difficult to describe)
elusive (difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze)
