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Elusiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being elusive. uncountable, usually

    "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."

  2. 2
    the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down wordnet

Etymology

From elusive + -ness.

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