The quality of being allusive; the tendency to make indirect references or suggestions rather than explicit statements.
From 'allusive' + '-ness' (suffix forming abstract nouns from adjectives). Creates an abstract noun denoting the characteristic or degree of being allusive.
The allusiveness of modernist poetry—writers like T.S. Eliot packing lines with historical, mythological, and literary references—created such density that scholars spend careers just unpacking the allusions!
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