ELUSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)