elusiveness

1. Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel;
   一个好玩欲擒故纵、藏头露尾手腕的女人，早晚受到报应，自食其果，让原来对她倾心相与的男人鄙视；
2. Heavy metal pollution lasts long, has strong elusiveness and is hard to eliminate, and it also can pose a great threat to human health through the migration and enrichment of the food chain.
   另外，重金属污染具有长期性、隐蔽性，难以消除性，可通过食物链迁移富集，对人类健康造成威胁。

noun

1. the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down
   1. the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness