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Elusiveness   /ɪlˈusɪvnəs/   Listen
Elusiveness

noun
1.
The quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down.





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"Elusiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... out of his great pity for them. It was a beautiful idea, but it worked badly. They did not understand—never got the hang of the thing: not one of them. They thought he was really gone on them. For a time his elusiveness, his backwardness in coming to the point, they attributed to a fit and proper fear of his fate; but as the months went by the feeling of each one was that he was carrying the apprehension of his own unworthiness too far. ...
— They and I • Jerome K. Jerome


Words linked to "Elusiveness" :   elusive, unclearness


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