Etymograph

English

evasiveness

From evasive + -ness.

A compound of evasive + -ness

Latin vadō

Latin ēvādō ‘to exit, leave, come out’

French évasif ‘evasive, slippery, noncommittal’

English evasive

Today it means

noun The quality of being evasive.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

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