Definition: evasiveness

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Source: WordNet (r) 1.7 

evasiveness
     n 1: intentionally vague or ambiguous [syn: equivocation, prevarication]
     2: deliberate vagueness or ambiguity [syn: equivocation]

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

Evasive \E*va"sive\, a. [Cf. F. ['e]vasif. See Evade.]
   Tending to evade, or marked by evasion; elusive; shuffling;
   avoiding by artifice.

         Thus he, though conscious of the ethereal guest,
         Answered evasive of the sly request.     --Pope.

         Stammered out a few evasive phrases.     --Macaulay.
   -- E*va"sive*ly, adv. -- E*va"sive*ness, n.