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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

evasiveness

/(ē̇*vā"sĭv*nĕs)/ · e·va·siv·eness · IPA
01 n. Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.
  1. 1.
    Deliberate vagueness or ambiguity; failing to answer a question while trying to seem as though one is answering.
Syn. equivocation.