Word.ws English Dictionary

elusiveness

elusiveness noun: the state of being elusive.

Noun

elusiveness (usually uncountable, plural elusivenesses)

  1. (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

Forms of elusiveness

pluralelusivenesses

Origin of elusiveness

From elusive + -ness.

Questions about elusiveness

What does elusiveness mean?
Elusiveness means the state of being elusive.
What part of speech is elusiveness?
Elusiveness is a noun.
What is the plural of elusiveness?
The plural of elusiveness is elusivenesses.

Words near elusiveness in the dictionary

  1. Eluru
  2. elusion
  3. elusions
  4. elusive
  5. elusively
  6. elusiveness
  7. elusivenesses
  8. elusivity
  9. elusoriness
  10. elusory
  11. Elut

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: elusiveness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “elusiveness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/elusiveness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.