elusiveness

e·lu·sive  (-lsv, -zv)

adj.

1. Tending to elude capture, perception, comprehension, or memory: "an invisible cabal of conspirators, each more elusive than the archterrorist [himself]" (David Kline).

2. Difficult to define or describe: "Failures are more finely etched in our minds than triumphs, and success is an elusive, if not mythic, goal in our demanding society" (Hugh Drummond).

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[From Latin lsus, past participle of ldere, to elude; see elude.]

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e·lusive·ly adv.

e·lusive·ness n.

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

elusiveness - the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down; "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness" unclearness - incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear