elusiveness
nounEtymology From elusive + -ness.
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Usually The state of being elusive.
- 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.1954, Alexander Alderson, chapter 1, in The Subtle Minotaur: