allusiveness|əˈl(j)uːsɪvnɪs|[f.asprec.+ -ness.]1.Symbolical or figurative quality or manner. arch.1669H. MoreSeven Churches ix. (T.)The multifarious allusiveness of the prophetical style.1875M. A. LowerEngl.Surn. (1875) II.App.128The allusiveness so much objected to by the lovers of simple and non-emblematical heraldry.2.The quality of containing or making covert or indirect reference.1791WhitakerRev.Gibbon (R.)The quick and short allusiveness of it[Gibbon's language].1863Sat.Rev.415Half-jocular allusiveness, which is incomparably more suggestive and more full of temptation than anything else.1871R. H. HuttonEss.II. 299The indirectness, the allusiveness, the educated reticence of the artists.