elusiveness

Noun

Meaning

the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

quicksilver evanescence slipperiness evasion shunning imprecision circumvention fugacity abstractness indirectness intangibility elusion inaccessibility inexactitude evasiveness
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Antonyms

nicety definitude

Hypernyms

unclearness

Examples

It is just flipping unbelievable. He is a mixture of Harry Houdini and a greased piglet. He is barely human in his elusiveness. Nailing Blair is like trying to pin jelly to a wall. Boris Johnson

I give the impression of elusiveness sometimes, and rightly, because I really do have an inner chamber in my temple I'm not mature enough to open. Northrop Frye

What's cool about indie rock is that one band can do effectively the same thing as another band, and one band nails it, and the other one doesn't. I like that elusiveness. Andrew Bird

the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness Source: Internet

Above-average but not spectacular elusiveness and burst into the second level. Source: Internet

The Ass Crack Bandit strikes again at Greendale after two years of elusiveness. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

elusive creature elusive move elusively elusivity elusoriness elusory