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EVASIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does evasiveness mean?
• EVASIVENESS (noun)
The noun EVASIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. intentionally vague or ambiguous
Familiarity information: EVASIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Intentionally vague or ambiguous
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
equivocation; evasiveness; prevarication
Hypernyms ("evasiveness" is a kind of...):
ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)
untruthfulness (the quality of being untruthful)
Derivation:
evasive (deliberately vague or ambiguous)
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