[f. ELUSIVE a. + -NESS.] The quality of being ELUSIVE.
1873. Masson, Drumm. of Harth., vi. 104. Shakespeare’s elusiveness of publicity. Ibid. (1881), De Quincey, x. 124. His [De Quincey’s] elusiveness of all ordinary social gatherings had increased.
1884. Pall Mall Gaz., 14 May, 5/1. Von Hartmann is … Protean in his elusiveness.
1884. E. P. Roe, Nat. Ser. Story, vii. Her … reserve and elusiveness.
