All evasiveness synonyms

noun evasiveness

• indirectness — not in a direct course or path; deviating from a straight line; roundabout: an indirect course in sailing.
• caginess — cautious, wary, or shrewd: a cagey reply to the probing question.
• equivocation — The use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
• shifty — resourceful; fertile in expedients.
• elusiveness — The state of being elusive.
• ambiguousness — open to or having several possible meanings or interpretations; equivocal: an ambiguous answer.
• vagueness — (of persons) not clear or definite in thought, understanding, or expression: vague about his motives; a vague person.
• slipperier — tending or liable to cause slipping or sliding, as ice, oil, a wet surface, etc.: a slippery road.
• avoidance — Avoidance of someone or something is the act of avoiding them.
• prevarication — the act of prevaricating, or lying: Seeing the expression on his mother's face, Nathan realized this was no time for prevarication.
• tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.