elusiveness

English

Etymology

elusive +‎ -ness

Noun

elusiveness (usually uncountable, plural elusivenesses)

  1. The state of being elusive.
    • 1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur‎:
      Slowly she turned round and faced towards a neat white bungalow, set some way back from the path behind a low hedge of golden privet. No light showed, but someone there was playing the piano. The strange elusiveness of the soft, insistent melody seemed to draw her forward.
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