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Allusiveness   Listen
noun
Allusiveness  n.  The quality of being allusive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Allusiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... philosophies, Huneker always assumes that the elements are already well-grounded, that he is dealing with the initiated, that a pause to explain would be an affront. Sad work for the Philistines—but a joy to the elect! All this polyphonic allusiveness, this intricate fuguing of ideas, is not to be confused, remember, with the hollow showiness of the academic soothsayer. It is as natural to the man, as much a part of him as the clanging Latin of Johnson, or, to leap from ...
— A Book of Prefaces • H. L. Mencken



Words linked to "Allusiveness" :   indirectness



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