]ivnə̇s, ]ēv- also ]əv-\ noun
( -es )
: the quality or state of being elusive
the author's elusiveness may at times be construed … as evasiveness — J.W.Chase
brings vividly before us the elusiveness of the eternal objects of sense — A.N.Whitehead
resented charges of rough tactics in his base running, maintaining that he developed elusiveness by his fall-away or fadeaway slide — Current Biography