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ALLUSIVENESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does allusiveness mean?

• ALLUSIVENESS (noun)
The noun ALLUSIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. a quality characterized by indirect reference

Familiarity information: ALLUSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• ALLUSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A quality characterized by indirect reference

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("allusiveness" is a kind of...):

indirectness (having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal)

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