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Evasion vs Evasiveness - What's the difference?

evasion | evasiveness |

Evasiveness is a related term of evasion.



As nouns the difference between evasion and evasiveness

is that evasion is the act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding while evasiveness is the quality of being evasive.

evasion

English

Noun

  • The act of eluding or avoiding, particularly the pressure of an argument, accusation, charge, or interrogation; artful means of eluding.
  • * 2011 , Christine Chism, Alliterative Revivals (page 99)
    • In these hunting scenes, as many critics have noted, the reversals, negotiations, lurkings, and evasions between hunter and prey mirror and frame the bedroom strategies of the Lady and Gawain.

    Synonyms

    * equivocation * prevarication * shift * subterfuge * shuffling

    Derived terms

    * tax evasion

    References

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    evasiveness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being evasive.