elusiveness
3
7.4
- noun
- /ɪˈluːsɪvnəs/
:
elusividad
- Randomness, elusiveness, and impermanence announced themselves as essential truths; my quest would have to be for understanding, not order.
Examples
-
There's nothing more beautiful than elusiveness in cinema.
Blog text (20) -
Over the last century, no one has thought more about the promise of democracy in their country or been more dismayed by its elusiveness than the Chinese themselves.
Academic text (2008) -
Part of it is his quick release coupled with his elusiveness.
Blog text (4) -
Her elusiveness added to the range of her attractiveness.
Fiction book (1998) -
The very elusiveness of history prevents its erasure.
Academic text (1995) -
The new star of the Niners has pocket presence, the speed, the elusiveness, and the strength to succeed at his game.
Blog text (5) -
Mansfield's elusiveness is the second obstacle to understanding.
Academic text (2002) -
For Tocqueville himself, however, the strange quest of Pascal is at the center of the truth about the elusiveness of human liberty.
Academic text (2001) -
The very elusiveness of any convincing cause-and-effect pattern becomes, paradoxically, evidence of a special destiny.
Academic text (1996) -
The detective struggled with the elusiveness of the suspect, who seemed to vanish into thin air after each crime.
Synonyms
660
4.7
Something that is hard to understand or explain
5
7.4
Hard to understand or see, making people feel confused
2
8.3
A state when people cannot reach or get something easily
1
9.9
A quality that you cannot understand or know the reasons for
1
9.9
A state where something is very hard to understand
1
9.9
A quality that makes facts and events impossible to find out or fully understand
1
5.2
A quality of being hard to understand and making people curious
1
9.8
A state when something cannot be explained or understood
1
9.9
Difficulty understanding something because it is complex or unclear
1
7.8
A state in which something is out of sight and hard to notice or understand
A thing that people cannot understand or explain
A state where you cannot describe something exactly
Something you cannot say in words
A state that is impossible or very hard to describe in words
How hard it is to understand something because its meaning is unclear
Difficulty understanding something because it is very complex
The quality of being very difficult to understand because it is complex
A state of being mysterious and hard to understand
A quality of being mysterious and hard to understand
State of being hard to understand
A state of not being seen or heard by other people
Very hard to understand because the ideas are unclear or complicated
You cannot easily understand or picture it in your mind
A state of being impossible to fully describe in words
Antonyms
How Elusive
1
9.9
3
7.4
3
7.4
660
4.7
5
7.4
8
6.1
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Elusiveness comes from the verb elude, which comes from old Latin parts e- meaning 'out' and ludere meaning 'to play'. A helpful image is something that 'plays out' of your hands and slips away, so elusiveness means being hard to catch, find, or understand.