ELUSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does elusiveness mean? 

• ELUSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun ELUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down

  Familiarity information: ELUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ELUSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

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

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)

 Context examples 

Pluto is a prime example of this elusiveness.

(2007 OR10: Largest Unnamed World in the Solar System, NASA)