Term: elusiveness: the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: eggar: moth having nonfunctional mouthparts as adults; larvae feed on tree foliage and spin egg-shaped cocoons
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: mumbling: indistinct enunciation
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: mohawk: haircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalp
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: attic: the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: rhodolite: a red or pink variety of garnet used as a gemstone
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: ninepence: a coin worth nine pennies
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: foster-mother: a woman who is a foster parent and raises another's child
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: outercourse: sexual stimulation without vaginal penetration
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: triangulation: a method of surveying; the area is divided into triangles and the length of one side and its angles with the other two are measured, then the lengths of the other sides can be calculated
Broader: abstraction: a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Unrelated: incompetent cervix: (obstetrics) uterine cervix that becomes dilated before term and without labor often resulting in miscarriage or premature birth