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say it: i-LOO-siv-nuhs
elusiveness is a noun meaning "the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down". It is pronounced /ɪˈlusɪvnəs/ — i-LOO-siv-nuhs. It carries one recorded sense.
the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down
“the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for elusiveness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.