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ALLUSIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does allusiveness mean?
• ALLUSIVENESS (noun)
The noun ALLUSIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. a quality characterized by indirect reference
Familiarity information: ALLUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A quality characterized by indirect reference
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("allusiveness" is a kind of...):
indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)
Derivation:
allusive (characterized by indirect references)
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